Dad Quote by Robert Burns

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children,…

— Lewis Carroll

“Our father was a rumor, an echo, something only to be seen out of the corner of your eye. Our father was a woodsman,…

— Richard Thomas

“The treetops swayed high above the mists along the edge of the forest known as Wynne Holt. Five boys, all in their twelfth year,…

— Chautona Havig

“We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see—a slumped…

— Ransom Riggs

“He enjoyed the soft sound of night wind and the knowledge that he was the only boy — perhaps the only human being —…

— Dan Simmons

“Perhaps one may be out late, and had got separated from one's companions. Oh horrors! Suddenly one starts and trembles as one seems to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He sat on the logs, smoking, drying in the sun, the sun warm on his back the river shallow ahead entering the woods, curving…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In the dewy wood tinselled with bewildering moonlight, the bumbling, tumbling babies of the fairy creche trip over the hem of her dress, which…

— Angela Carter

“They fluttered and rustled ceaselessly through the air from all the tree-tops and branches. A delicate silvery sound was falling constantly to earth. It…

— Felix Salten

“In the Trees ON LOU’S SWEET, ROUND, BRISTLY FACE WAS THE LOOK OF A CHILD who has just seen a car back over his…

— Joe Hill

“Not long after, and while it was still twilight, the grandfather also went to bed, for he was up every morning at sunrise, and…

— Johanna Spyri

“The old feelings rumbled through his belly, taking root in his aching loins. He was too crippled to pleasure himself anymore. He licked his…

— J.T. Ellison