#father

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. ↗

— June Jordan

#hero #intense #over-the-top #passionate #tyrant

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.' ↗

— Michael Jordan

#anything #father #know #late #never

My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#ah #arrived #brother #eight #father

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#comfortable #condition #desirable #fathers #good-natured

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#conveys #cradle #father #grave #guardian

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#bringing #care #case #children #fathers

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. ↗

— William Allan

#i #latin #learning #money #painter

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#family #grandfather #him #i #passed

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. ↗

— William Barclay

#any #believe #better #cause #child

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#book #father #mostly #relationship