Children Quote by Polly Shulman

“Clearly he needed a father, but some other father, any other father, would have been preferable.”

— Ann Patchett

“I like him and I wonder what I would be like if I had a different father.”

— m.j. hyland

“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.”

— Isabella Starling

“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

“I asked him what it was like to have a dad. He said he didn't think it mattered who you had as long as…

— Cath Crowley

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

— Johan Twiss

“Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.”

— Ann Patchett

“He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.”

— Frederick Drimmer

“It’s strange, but when your father has gone you suddenly discover that the choices you have made were as much for him as for…

— Jo Nesbø

“I also want you to know that a father isn't someone who helps produce a child. It's the person who loves that child and…

— R.D. Cole

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

“Isn’t that an odd thing for a parent to wish for a child? That he would be less than what he is?”

— Tracy Guzeman