#father

Oh, Caddy," said Saffron miserably. "I know. It's awful. But I'm going. We all should." "It will be so sad." "You have to be sad sometimes," said Caddy. "Whatever Dad says. He may be right. Granddad probably had totally lost his marbles, but I am still sad and I'm still going to the funeral. I shall be as unhappy as I like and I shall where black. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#grandfather #sad #sisters #family

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know? ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#fathers-and-sons #family

My father is the most genial Midwestern guy imaginable, but for him, disaster lurks around every corner—financial ruin, squandered health, pyramid schemes, airbags failing to deploy—so he tends to use fear as a parenting tool to try to goad his daughters into being more prepared.When he retired, he reached new levels of preparedness, so his car contained bottled water, hand wipes, a roadside emergency kit with flares, books on tape, a coin dispenser, and two hand towels to use as makeshift bibs so he and my mother could drive and eat without making a mess. ↗

— Jancee Dunn

#prepared #imagination

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#father #fighting #figured #i #if i could

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#bit #brother #father #genes #journalist

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me. ↗

— Anne Heche

#been #father #had #hung #i

My father was all brain and little heart. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#father #heart #little

My plan was never to be an actor like my father. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#father #like #never #plan

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Colin Hay

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools. ↗

— David Soul

#how #husband #learn #nobody #star