Arms Quote by Melina Marchetta

“Good-bye,” I say to Grandfather, and to my father, and I hold the tube in the river and pause a moment. We hold the…

— Ally Condie

You know at 14, when you lose your hero - your father - that's why I hold him on such a high pedestal.

— Jason Bonham

I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was…

— Edmund White

It would have been nice to have been able to communicate with my father as a man, not just a kid. I would have…

— Patrick Dempsey

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked…

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I liked my father's work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is a metaphor…

— Javier Zanetti

“Is your father really evil?” I heard myself ask. “Yes.” “Because he drank, did drugs?” “No, honey. Because God made him that way, and…

— Lisa Gardner

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I…

— Stephen Sondheim

“Serafina said, 'Have you been married, Mr Scoresby? Have you any children?' 'No, ma'am, I have no child, though I would have liked to…

— Philip Pullman

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought…

— Jackie Cooper

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often…

— Stephen Sondheim

“I felt the shape of my name on his lips more than once, and I dragged him onto the lounge with me without giving…

— Santino Hassell

Most of us are dragged toward wholeness.

— Marion Woodman

“You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be dragged down for the count, too.”

— Jodi Picoult

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve…

— Ovid