Parenting Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“There are lots of things sons shouldn’t imagine about their mothers, above all what it was like to become one.”

— Bauvard

“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.”

— Isabella Starling

“One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.”

— Pearl S. Buck

“Summer had never had a father, and wasn’t entirely sure what you did with one.”

— T. Kingfisher

“Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers. Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.”

— Homer

“I asked him what it was like to have a dad. He said he didn't think it mattered who you had as long as…

— Cath Crowley

“At one point in life, every son would look back at his father and think. I am not just like him, I am him.”

— Midhun Jackson

“He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.”

— Frederick Drimmer

“Clearly he needed a father, but some other father, any other father, would have been preferable.”

— Ann Patchett

“It appeared possible that these other men were good fathers only because they knew too little of the world to grow frenzied against it.”

— Rebecca West

“He needed me to do what sons do for their fathers: bear witness that they’re substantial, that they’re not hollow, not ringing absences. That…

— Richard Ford

“But he'd never pictured himself as a father and had had no idea that there was an emotion that was a combination of pride,…

— Erin Nicholas