Parenting Quote by Derek Walcott Download Open image ““I am the man my father loved and was.”” — Derek Walcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parenting
“I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part… — Elle Cosimano Copy Share Image
“He's your father, but first he is a man. A man is just a man, and that's all we have to wok with.” — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“he was supposed to be the first male love of your life you still search for him everywhere - father” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a guy you… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“I loved my father. Most people did. He did try his best. He did provide for his family. He taught me many things and… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me away from… — Nicci Greene Copy Share Image
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here—… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.” — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor 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
“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
“As members of the Church, there are things you cannot do. For one, you cannot take a Las Vegas-style vacation. I do not know… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons 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
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
