Birth Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My earliest memory is being in a snow hole, aged two-and-a-half, with my dad somewhere up a mountain in a blizzard. I don't know…

— Tommy Caldwell

When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought…

— John le Carre

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me…

— Kate DiCamillo

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the…

— Mona Simpson

My father always kept me in a very different world, a very simple world.

— Maurizio Gucci

Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart…

— Carol Ann Duffy

My dad is a really cool guy, but he showed me 'The Shining,' and I was like, 'Hey, dad. I'm thirsty. Let's go get…

— Daniel Zovatto

My father's family were Italian ice cream men, and the knowledge was passed on, so I ran an ice cream van while I was…

— Chris Rea

In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom…

— Neil Young

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here…

— John Irving