Parenting Quote by Larry McMurtry Download Open image ““I’ve seen your father bury many a man, but I never saw him take this kind of pains.” Newt”” — Larry McMurtry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parenting
Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. “He’s my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life.” Al cleared… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn’t a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. "Please, Tommy. Please."… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
“I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“The words came from him like a sob, a hoarse sound like the death rattle of a dying man; it seemed indeed like the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I cannot think of a life without him in it. I cannot bury another son. This time I fear they will have to put… — Lynn Viehl Copy Share Image
“One thing I will say, they often take it better than a man. Pain, that is. Probably the residue of tolerance from when they… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
“Seeing my father behind a thick glass wall in an orange jumpsuit was hammering it home, that life as I knew it was about… — Winter Travers Copy Share Image
“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“. . . he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor 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
“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
“As members of the Church, there are things you cannot do. For one, you cannot take a Las Vegas-style vacation. I do not know… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons 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
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image