Parenting Quote by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

“Abruptly, they seemed alike to me and equally dear: my father, my son. I felt as though my father had been waiting for this…

— Sue Miller

Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who…

— Mary Lavin

“Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What happens to men sometimes,' his father wants to tell Charlie, 'is that one day all at once they'll understand how much they love…

— Thomas Pynchon

“The truth is that if my father weren't my father, he would be one of the men he hates; he is incorrigibly faithless and…

— Nora Ephron

“I thought that was pretty good. So then I disturbed my father at his typewriter, and asked him what my heritage was from his…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I have found that because of our Father's desire for us to grow, He may give us gentle, almost imperceptible promptings that, if we…

— Richard G. Scott

“And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory, that it is no novelty in…

— George Eliot

“My father was a stand–up man who, unfortunately, did not have anything to stand up for. An eternal conflict burned in his heart, a…

— Henry Martin

“An embrace from him left scratches on my back that sometimes wept blood, yet my brothers and I fought to be the first in…

— Christopher Moore

“One would think being free of my father's domineering influence would have made him a better man. Instead, he took on patterns of my…

— Sheila Myers

“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor.…

— William Styron