Father Quote by Joseph Conrad Download Open image ““at him I seemed to see again the other one—the father, cast out”” — Joseph Conrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father Parenting
“I wonder where father's gone. He repeatedly goes out but never comes in.” — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Here one moment, in the great beyond the next. An eyeblink, and a boy becomes his father.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“She saw this frail man—her father—in a new light now. But more than that, she was relieved. Relieved that she was not being dumped… — Neil D'Silva Copy Share Image
“I looked at the faces around me, wondering what was going to happen to me ... wondering when I would see Father again. "I… — M.L LeGette Copy Share Image
“And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?” — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing… — Nonito Donaire Copy Share Image
“..he felt no more than a boy again-but a very well-versed boy who couldn't help thinking of the scene described by these old words,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Every father knows the disconcerting when you see your child as a weird, distorted double of yourself. It is as if for a moment… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image