Bits Quote by John Masefield

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

— Pat Conroy

“The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. ‘She is a girl,' she said, ‘and…

— George R.R. Martin

“An embrace from him left scratches on my back that sometimes wept blood, yet my brothers and I fought to be the first in…

— Christopher Moore

It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son.

— Robert D. Hales

When I was twenty-six, I had my son.

— Abigail Spencer

“In olden days people said, ‘The father knows his son, the mother, her daughter.”

— Shin Jae

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

— Diego Luna

When I was a boy I was my father.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.

— William Blake

“Mother was,' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and…

— Karen Abbott

“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Abruptly, they seemed alike to me and equally dear: my father, my son. I felt as though my father had been waiting for this…

— Sue Miller