#father

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#cannot #dreams #exist #fathers #follows

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father. ↗

— Patricia Schroeder

#ever #father #how #men #nobody

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#argument #because #bed #been #chess

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart. ↗

— Alia Shawkat

#father figure #figure #just #like #me

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#deep #father #full #had #i

My body kills me, so I kill it. ↗

— Dorotheus the Theban

#death #desert-father #dying #holy-father #monastic

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry. ↗

— Joni Eareckson Tada

#fathers #love #parenting #love

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#because #childhood #entire #father #flights

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father? ↗