Father Quote by Michael Korda Download Open image ““My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his”” — Michael Korda ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Father Parenting
“Their great-great-grandmother once claimed that when the de Vincent men fell in love, they did so fast and hard, without reason or hesitation” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Vincent was the victim of his own fanatic heart. “There’s something in the way he talks that makes people either love him or hate him,” he tried to explain. “He spares nothing and no one.” Long after others had put away the breathless manias of youth, Vincent still lived by their unsparing rules. Titanic, unappeasable passions swept through his life.… — Steven Naifeh Copy Share
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him.… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“finding that she was determined to get to the bottom of what seemed to him a very trivial affair, extricated himself without hesitation or… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“Now our father lived in a world where we didn’t belong, with a needy girlfriend who didn’t look much older than Henri, a saltwater… — Jessica Taylor Copy Share Image
“Vincent knew he was dying. A horrendous fever overwhelmed him with intolerable pain throughout many sleepless hours. It came as a result of a… — Don Luis Zavala Copy Share Image
“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had tried to… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“Everything he did, as long as you stayed in the village, whether shouting obscenities at passing children or sleeping in the cemetery, all would… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
In 'Gran Torino,' Eastwood moves towards the climax of the movie not by staging a shoot-out, but by putting his weapons to one side… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult than to recreate in all its complexity than a distant age, and not only to get it right but make… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social… — Michael Korda Copy Share
In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and collaboration, or… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan had a kind of shallow movie-star charisma - a combination of makeup and the skill of a good actor - but it… — Michael Korda 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 LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
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
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 of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross,… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share
“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
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
