Quote by Elizabeth Strout Download Open image ““no ideology can protect a son from the unwelcome inheritance of his father’s ambitions.”” — Elizabeth Strout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES sooner that… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bringing him… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“out of arrogance, of laziness, or the shallow notion that modern, freethinking parents ought to allow children to decide these things for themselves, we’d… — Brian Gresko Copy Share Image
“When one knows that he is his mother's child, and proceeds to guard (the qualities of) the mother that belong to him, to the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The inability to rise above one's inherited ism and ideology makes one live and die a fool, just a folly.” — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“One is considered as a son if he were to remove all of his father's troubles.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It was my wish that our sons should cultivate a habit of bold independence, for I well knew that it might easily be the… — Jean Rudolph Wyss Copy Share Image
“No, happily that unjust prejudice is forgotten which made the son responsible for the father's actions. Review your life, Albert ...” — Alexandre Dumas pere Copy Share Image
“every son should have a chance to know his father, not as a child knows his protector, but as a man knows another man.” — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
“Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant’s desire to murder the father and possess the mother.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share
“what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies were as needy as their own young, firm… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“I said on the phone to my mother, “I think I’m going to write the story of the Burgess kids.” “It’s a good one,”… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into some large and private club that she had not even known existed. Women who miscarried. Society did not care much for them. It really didn't. And the women in the club mostly passed each other silently.… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share
“He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.” — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“The year that followed - was it the happiest year of his own life? He often thought so, even knowing that such a thing… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“She could hear in the darkness of her car how his breathing was quicker now; and her own was, too. She wanted to say… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Abdikarim shook his head in his darkened room, sweat coming from his face down onto his neck. “No, he cuts my heart. You didn’t see him. He’s not what we saw in the newspaper. He’s a frightened …” finishing softly: “child.” “We live now where there are laws,” Haweeya said soothingly. “He’s frightened because he broke the law.” Abdikarim continued to… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share
I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here.… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few readers that… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
