"The handy thing about being a father is……" — Michael Chabon

"The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low."

127 Quotes by Michael Chabon

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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
A father is a man who fails every day.
He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.
When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still…
Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.
The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched…
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the…
He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been…
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose…
Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some…

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought… — Frank Abagnale
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was… — Chinua Achebe
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,… — Paul Auster
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace.… — Teresa of Avila
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;… — Teresa of Avila
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I… — Jensen Ackles
I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. — Amitabh Bachchan
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place… — Michael Badnarik

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