Being right Quote by Ben Marcus Download Open image ““The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.”” — Ben Marcus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being right Father Fatherhood Fathers Parenting Righteousness Time
“By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is wrong.” — Charles Wadsworth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, mothers, so conditioned to be all and do all, are complicit in diminishing the role of fathers.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“There is a talk that every father has with his son in which he brings the child to understand that there are ways we… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“all these things were foreknown by the Father; but the Son works them out at the proper time in perfect order and sequence.” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong. — Charles Wadsworth Copy Share Image
“For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me.” — Zondervan Publishing Copy Share Image
By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks hes wrong. — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
“Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then,… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“..., and he told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely hoisted him while he hyperventilated in their space… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Terms BEN MARCUS, THE 1. False map, scroll, caul, or parchment. It is comprised of the first skin. In ancient times, it hung from… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“This first. To understand this. Then maybe." Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone. This first. To understand this. Then… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Who is setting the bar for what you call accessibility? The definition of “accessible” is “easy to understand,” and so much of the fiction… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“This need to be right has put a huge burden on me, one that I never deserved to have to carry. Part of it,… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
“And then I decided to be pro me. Be pro you to the end. No more cutting up myself and serving up myself like… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
