Father Quote by Christina Baker Kline Download Open image ““father’s drinking—did I mention that?”” — Christina Baker Kline ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father Parenting
“I can't believe I'm about to drink with my father- this is wrong on so many levels.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“My father always said not to drink when you had secrets to keep. You never know what might come out. ” — C.M. Owens Copy Share Image
“Mom and Dad drank a lot more, and their arguments became more frequent and more abusive. Dad was very non-physical during these arguments and… — Sandi Gamble Copy Share Image
“My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my father.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“I stopped loving my father at some point while I was a drunk. I began hating him after I became sober.” — Volatalistic Phil Copy Share Image
“Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“My father gave me everything he had. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.” — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
“He got up from the floor and reached for the whisky bottle. Nick held out his glass. His eyes fixed on it while Bill… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“No, he didn’t drink because he’d seen every kind of reason for diving into a bottle, seen them up close and personal. But he’d… — Eliza Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Mr. Grote shows me how he grows wild rice in the stream and collects the seeds. The rice is nutty and brown. He plants… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“I try to forget the horror of what happened. Or—perhaps forget is the wrong word. How can I forget? And yet how can I… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“don’t know how much of my memory of this time is affected by my age now and how much is a result of the… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Sometimes these spirits have been more real to me than people, more real than God. They fill silence with their weight, dense and warm,… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Every Easter she and her mother planted those crocuses near the fence beside the driveway, and soon enough a whole cluster of them, white… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Mr. Kaminski pulled a chain hanging from the pressed-metal kitchen ceiling, and light seeped from a bulb, casting a wan glow over a scarred… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ... Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and by the… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“for the first time since the fire, my worries are gone. I feel a joy so strong it’s almost painful—a knife’s edge of joy.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“What was it the teacher in her Legal Issues class said the other day? Never bring up a point you don’t have an answer… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy's knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely winces, then… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image