Father Quote by Ida Pruitt

“In the wicked outside world, my brother told me, there were sins the church didn't know enough to forbid. I couldn't wait.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“His old priests might have told him there's sins of commission not omission. It's not always the things you do but the things you…

— Don Winslow

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

— Marita Golden

“I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands- hands that created the world surrendered to…

— Anonymous

“My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy.…

— Tahir Shah

Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met.…

— Julius Lester

To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

— Frank Delaney

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily…

— Henry David Thoreau

All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

— Edward Ball

“David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her,…

— John Connolly

After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen