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Father Quotes by Alice Sebold
- Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me…
- The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it.…
- Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
- I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father,…
- I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the…
- A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
- My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor…
- As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice,…
- Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone…
- Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with…
- There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing…
- It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing…
- There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
More Father Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles
- I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. — Amitabh Bachchan
- Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government.… — Michael Badnarik