D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Dad kept saying that nothing in the world could be compared with the pain of losing a child. He said that he would not wish even the worst person in the entire universe to see the funeral of his own child. I didn’t fully understand the meaning of those words until I became a mother myself.”
Source: Petrichor
“Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.”
“Dad literally carried me around the world with him through the early years of my life.”
“Dad lived in fear of time. He felt it stalking him. I could see it in the worried glances he gave the sun as it moved across the sky, in the anxious way he appraised every length of pipe or cut of steel. Dad saw every piece of scrap as the money it could be sold for, minus the time needed to sort, cut and deliver it.”
Source: Educated
“Dad looked more sheepish than I had ever seen him look in his life. It made him appear younger.
“A scent. Your mother’s shampoo.”
Source: I Belong to the Earth
“Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.”
“Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.”
“Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.”
“Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really make a fool out of people. I have to watch it a little bit, because I caught that habit from him. I was really fond of him. He was my idol.”
“Dad might think being gay is a sin, but he sees it more as a sign of human weakness, not Satanic interference. At least, I don't think he does. I figure it's between me and the Big Guy upstairs. We used to go to church a lot, and I never heard on word to make me think I'm some sort of adbomination. If God is in fact responsible for creating me, He made me just how He wants me. And if He loved every bit of his handiwork, He loves me. And if all that is nothing more than mythology, what harm is there in believing the stories anyway? When I pray- or meditate, or consider the universe, whatever you want to call it- I find comfort. Self-acceptance. Understanding, at least in some world.”
Source: Tilt
“Dad mistook - for some reason unbeknownst to me - he mistook his family for a platoon of Marines. I mean, he - the exact same thing he brought to the disciplining of a squadron, a battalion, a platoon, he brought to the disciplining of his children. He ran the house - he had Saturday morning inspections for us, he had white-glove inspections for us as kids.”
“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.”
“Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her.”
“Dad never praised my cooking or complained about it, either. So I always thought cooking was like putting on your socks, say, or opening a window - nothing special. But now that I had a girlfriend I realized that if you fed a woman good food she'd be yours forever, and was kind of upset with Dad for not telling me something so important.”
Source: Scattered All Over the Earth
“Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.”
“dad now realize how you became poet”
“Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok - that we were all going to be ok - the message would come to me in the form of a white feather. Then something happened to me about ten years ago when I was on tour in Australia. I was presented with a white feather by an Aboriginal tribal elder, which definitely took my breath away. One thing for sure is that the white feather has always represented peace to me.”
“Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days.
"Just like Jesus," Mom says.
I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!”
Source: Simon Sort of Says
“Dad,
Please accept this money to fix the broken window. I’m sure it’s already fixed, considering Lydia’s house pride and her phobia about unconditioned air, but
Dear Al,
I can’t begin to explain my actions at Lydia’s – I mean yours and Lydia’s house. When I get to Charleston, I never imagined that you would have
Dear Dad and Lydia,
I apologize to both of you for my irrational behavior. I know it’s all my fault, but if you would have listened to ONE THING I had to say, I might not have
Dear Dad’s new family,
I hope you’ll all be very happy being blond together. May people speak only in inside voices for the rest of your lives.
P.S. Lydia, you wedding dress makes your arms look fat.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“Dad pressed against my mind. Please, Allison. Let me, just this once, hold my son.
I shouldn't. Nothing good ever came from letting my father have his way. But I could feel his love for this baby. And even if he couldn't love me, I knew that at this moment, before the baby could grow up and become a disappointment to him, he truly loved him.
I slowly stepped away from the front of my mind, letting him fill that space, letting him feel through my hands, see through my eyes.
"He's amazing," Dad said through me. "You're amazing." He looked up at Violet, and she smiled.”
Source: Magic on the Hunt
“Dad rests his hand on my shoulder and looks me in the eye. "Keep making me proud, Eduardo."
These tiny moments of affection are how he's trapped me over the years. The pat on the back after I threatened to have Peter McCall drowned if he ever used his water power in front of me. How Dad bandaged my hand after I beat down Harry Gardner. The praise after Rhys Stone was killed. I've attacked an entire community of people because I got some fatherly love from it. But every time I think about my mother, I know she wouldn't have raised me to be so hateful. I need to change and be someone she would've been proud to call her son.
It's hard when there's so much blood on my hands already.
Sometimes I think about how I would rather be dead than keep hiding my monstrosities behind this mask.”
Source: First Face - A Ness Prequel Short Story
“Dad's aren't optional. My dad wasn't optional."
"Because he was there...But if he wasn't there, your mom would have filled in the gaps. That's what moms do.”
Source: Landline
“Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other the container's inner wall. Principal problem was finding a dielectric to separate the two. Refuse oil poured in came out as oil of the highest grade, dry chemicals, and drinking water. Petroleum Rectifying Company successfully prohibited its use.”
Source: M: Writings '67–'72
“Dad's pink slips come in the form of bullets to the brain”
“Dad’s voice falters as he says goodbye. He is choking down his own grief to protect Mum, I know. He loves her deeply. I accept that he is incapable of expressing all this, and I am incapable of even saying the right thing, should he ever do so. And lurking deeper, is the knowledge that he has been here, himself. When I was aged about 5, his father—my grandfather—had cancer and took his own life by walking into the sea. My dad found his body under a jetty. What would it have been like to experience that tragedy? And then, to try and live, to go on raising a family, with those images haunting you?”
Source: Loss Adjustment
“Dad said I should be afraid of death because I'll finally have to face judgement for my sins. But he was wrong. These bones tell me there's nothing in death to fear. It's only the living who need to be afraid.”
Source: The Restless Dark
“Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.”
Source: The English Major: A Novel
“Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.”
“Dad says Specter gets steak every Saturday night for the rest of his life.""Specter will hold him to that, I'm sure." Diana leaned back against the pillows. "Hurry up and tell me the rest. Once Colby gets back, he probably won't tell me a thing. All he'll want to discuss is breast-feeding techniques and how tochange diapers.”
“Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes.
“Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.”
“Dad says that whenever we encounter a setback, we should "bounce," or pivot to the next solution. The impossible is always possible - you just have to find a way.”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“Dad, she's beautiful. I remember where she was standing.”
Source: Split Second
“Dad?" she said.
"Do you want some coffee?" he asked. "Are you okay?"
She shook her head. No.
"There are only so many hours you can sleep in a stranded vehicle." He glanced at the dashboard of her car, then at the untouched receipt--her receipt--sticking out of the machine a few feet away like a white tongue. "There's only so many times you can try to resurrect the dead. You can sit there all you want but you're not going anywhere. And, stuck as you are, you'll be forced to think about it, forced to wake up at some point, forced to depart or die here.”
Source: The Wake Up
“Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.”
Source: On the outside looking in
“Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.”
Source: Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant
“Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.”
“Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.”
“Dad tells me there’s no such thing as easy, no foolproof way to get through life unscathed. Every decision brings challenges. So, we don’t get easy. We only choose our hard. And if us is even on the table, believe me when I say you’re the easiest hard choice I’ll ever make.”
Source: The Summer We Forgot
“Dad thanks for leaning in by helping me become a role model for young girls.”
“Dad they think she has Down Syndrome." He smiled genuinely as his eyes welled up with tears. "That's okay. We love her.”
Source: Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir
“Dad thinks he’s keeping me safe by keeping me away from Alessio. I don’t want this safety. If being with Alessio means dying, then I’m happy to die. Because living without him is no better than death.”
Source: Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance
“Dad thinks I'm ready to fly around the country as the Ambassador of Hope, but Mom thinks I'm a frail little bird with broken wings.”
Source: Aftermath
“Dad thinks vengeance is the coolest thing about the Lord. That, and turning water into alcohol.”
“Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot!”
“Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Irregular jobs, such as painting the back porch or removing a stump from the front lawn, were awarded on a low-bid basis. Each child who wanted extra pocket money submitted a sealed bid saying what he would do the job for. The lowest bidder got the contract.”
Source: CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN
“Dad trusted people based on their spirit and their handshake.”
“Dad used to say if you love someone, let them go. I don’t agree with him. If you really love someone, I think you have to take them back.”
Source: Dearest Josephine
“Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.”
“Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.”
“Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son.”