Father Quote by Nick Flynn

“My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone’s hiding something.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“When my father would stop and ask for directions,'you can't miss it' were the only words he heard.”

— Lauren Alexander

“I’ve just become aware that for thirty-six years, I was angry with your father for not meeting my needs, and now I realize that…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“My dad has a story about hearing from me at work one day when I hadn’t had a chance to call in a while.…

— Chris Kyle

“Sometimes I’d take off my earmuffs and memory goggles and turn around to discover that my father had been standing in the doorway, just…

— Joshua Foer

“My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never…

— Helen Falconer

“Sometimes I caught my mother digging through old photo albums or staring at the wall or out the window. She’d get that look on…

— Sherman Alexie

“A father should never stop talking to his son. No matter what…”

— Johan Twiss

“my father found me immediately. He calmed me down and told me everything was fine, only we’d better not sing that song anymore.”

— Suzanne Collins

“To shut something out place all your attention elsewhere.”

— Steven Redhead

“I don’t like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet about are things you don’t want to know.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield.”

— Richard Bachman