Father Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image ““I wonder where father's gone. He repeatedly goes out but never comes in.”” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father Fathers Parenting
“Many fathers are gone. Some leave, some are left. Some return, unknown and hungry. Only the dog remembers.” — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“It’s strange, but when your father has gone you suddenly discover that the choices you have made were as much for him as for… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Why of all the nerve! That settles it, young lady. Either you come back to town with me or I'm not budging from this… — Charlotte McPherren Copy Share Image
“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.” — Isabella Starling Copy Share Image
“I looked at the faces around me, wondering what was going to happen to me ... wondering when I would see Father again. "I… — M.L LeGette Copy Share Image
“I'm never going to see him again. There were so many things I didn't say, and after my parents… I swore I'd never leave… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
“I wondered if there were ever times when Dad didn't sound like he escaped from a Jane Austen novel.” — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?” — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
“Dad lost his job. Then he got a new job. Then he got his old job back and went back to it. They were… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I’d take off my earmuffs and memory goggles and turn around to discover that my father had been standing in the doorway, just… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.… — Katie Melua 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
