Afternoon Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Colonel Aureliano Buendia smiled at her the same way as when he had first seen her with the bandage on that remote morning when…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Your father sounds frightening," Trayton said. "He once made a general cry." "No." "I shit you not. The guy had to retire after that.…

— Jennifer Rardin

“Now he realized that somehow those who had served in France and elsewhere knew a world that couldn’t be shared. How could he tell…

— Charles Todd

“He didn’t always tell his father when it happened, because the old man’s face turned mottled blue over his doublet, and unless Will got…

— Dorothy Dunnett

How far back, can you remember? Did the ice stop your heart?

— Jonny Craig

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the…

— Ridley Scott

“He was not as she remembered. His features were the same, but his face was hard. Blue ice made his eyes. The bloody rips…

— Robert Jordan

“It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a…

— John Eisenhower

“Everything changed, and eleven months later, here I was in the middle of the night with a gungho major, playing secret agent, hoping some…

— James R. Benn

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other…

— Jane Fonda