Parenting Quote by Guy de Maupassant

“[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.”

— Dick Van Dyke

“Father banged the table with his fist really hard so that the plates and his knife and fork jumped around and my ham jumped…

— Christopher

“I couldn’t bear the thought of a ham sandwich. Imagining milk trickling down my esophagus almost sent me over the edge. Even the saltines…

— Ree Drummond

“He had a long thin nose, a moustache like flock wallpaper, sparse, carefully combed hair, and the complexion of a Hovis loaf.”

— Len Deighton

“He was a horrid-looking fellow. Fat as a pig he was, and his face was the colour of cottage cheese. His collar was unbuttoned…

— Brian Moore

“When we slid the body into the grave, we both were shaken to the core. The loss we felt was not the loss of…

— E. B. White

“A shabby looking old man was walking their way. It must be a relative of one of the men, wandering in the wrong direction…

— Kate Williams

“vision, making his father’s face seem to fade from sight. The heavy weight of his father’s head grew lighter. Tom tried”

— Adam Blade

“All those years I'd kept an outline of my father in my head, like a chalk line enclosing a father-shaped space. When I was…

— Margaret Atwood

“There never was a man with such a face as yours, unless it was your father, and I suppose he is singeing his grizzled…

— Charles Dickens

“His fingernails and toenails were long and pointed,like little claws. His ears were pointed,too-and pierced with small stone hoops.He had two little hornlike nubs…

— Lauren Kate

“could not picture that Father had once swung on a swing. He could not imagine that Father had once been a boy, like him.…

— Khaled Hosseini