#father

It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#fatherhood #summerland #baseball

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christianity #eternal-father #god #god-father #spirituality

My father was a manual worker. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#manual #worker

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cruel #delights #father #make #man

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. ↗

— Josef Albers

#decorative #everything #fact #father #glass

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#emotions #father #feelings #lot #my own

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. ↗

— Woody Allen

#gold #grandfather #his #i #me

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. ↗

— Tori Amos

#father #house #minister #music #our

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. ↗

— Tori Amos

#being #church #corn #crab #father

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. ↗

— Mary Antin

#cans #cooking #eat #father #first