397 Quotes About Fathers

Southern DADDY—Dandy At Doin’ Diapers Y’all!

They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life who chose instead their life: spite and bitterness and age-fogged glasses of watery whiskey in dark, cobwebbed country bars, shit-smeared toilets, blood-streaked piss, and early death. He could have helped it but didn't. They couldn't help it and loved him for being worse than them. He was the king of the wasters.

You are a man, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential.

He's an artist in London. We don't see him much."Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?""No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known now for a long, long time. "Not really. Not anymore.

He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.

...[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

Greet your brother with warmth And sincerity Protect your sister and honour your motherFor she bore you in pain And made you who you areKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.(So why grieve?The worst of it, for him, is over.)Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.