Father Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image “My father was in the First World War.” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father First world war Firsts Parenting War War of the worlds World World war
When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
My dad served in World War II and died on active duty after the war. — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very… — Anne Reid Copy Share Image
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Dad was in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery from 1914 to 1918, as well as uncle Leonard. — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing 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
