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Father Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put…
- What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the…
- My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when…
- I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him…
- Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point…
- From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom…
- I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the…
- No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a…
- In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.
- Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the…
- My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close…
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