#father

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#appeared #before #better #career #concentrate

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#during #father #hole #late #left

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

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#david lynch #elephant #father #gave #loved

Even Dad likes it," said Caddy, and her father agreed that he did. In a way. Being a broad-minded, tolerant, artistic sort of person. Or so people told him... "Oh, yes?" said Saffron, rolling her eyes. "Yes," said Bill, sounding a little bit peeved. "So you thank your lucky stars, my girl, because in some families you would have come home to very big trouble! A nose stud! At your age! If you come down with blood poisoning, don't blame me! ↗

— Hilary McKay

#funny #piercings #age

Just ’cause a body says somethin’ don’t make it so. You know who you are, and they can’t change that no matter what them cacklin’ hens is to say.” He tapped him on the chest. “What matters is what’s in here, son. Not a soul can take that away from you. ↗

— Tracy Winegar

#inspiriational #self-esteem #change

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had? ↗

— Polly Shulman

#communication #fathers #communication