Childhood Quote by Pat Conroy

“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run…

— Salman Rushdie

“Word of his great strength, intelligence, and perseverance had spread even this far, and yet his youth was such that my father knew he…

— Daniel Wallace

“My own view of Father was not nearly so high-flown or complicated. For me he was flesh and blood and until the day I…

— Peter Taylor

“Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His…

— E.L. Doctorow

“in the industrial towns children went to work with their fathers and mothers, schools and doctors were only promises, a bed of one’s own…

— Howard Zinn

“Perhaps it was something like this that changed the captive children forever; the violence they had endured when they were captured, their parents killed.…

— Paulette Jiles

“Generations of people staying close to home, there for each other, doing what they knew best, enjoying being a burden to each other.”

— Hugh Howey

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so, we turn, among other things, to stories.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“My father believed all children had work potential, no matter how young they were. Play was okay for town kids, he’d say, but country…

— Lawn Griffiths

“We were kids without fathers . . . so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history. We got…

— Jay-Z

“Unlike a lot of men of his generation, my dad thought of being with his family as his priority; work was secondary. I”

— Chesley B. Sullenberger

“Then, as a child does, she grew to accept the first great absence in her life, a weaning from the sure certainty that all…

— Kalyan Ray