Family Quote by P.G. Wodehouse

“Lord Emsworth was a man with little of the aggressor in his spiritual make-up. He believed in living and letting live. Except for his…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty.”

— Christianna Brand

“He couldn’t imagine what had made his father so angry or the townspeople so mean, but he knew with a child’s sudden, clear conviction…

— Lynn Flewelling

“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor.…

— William Styron

“To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy’s father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he felt at…

— Christopher Hitchens

“So he had passed beyond the challenge of the sentries who had stood as guardians of his boyhood and had sought to keep him…

— James Joyce

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on…

— Alan Bradley

“There was a moment of sorrow, disappointment, and deep love for his son, whom he at that second wished had had a chance of…

— Paul Harding

“How strange, extraordinary, and joyful it was to her to think that her son - the little son, whose tiny limbs had faintly stirred…

— Leo Tolstoy

“If the grandfather was charged to curse her, then perhaps, the grandson was meant to bear the consequences of that action.”

— Kristina Stangl

“He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A…

— Cormac McCarthy

“It is the story of obscure beginnings, the story of a boy who, barely eleven, after his father’s early death, had to take on…

— Bob P. Buford