M Quotes
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“My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.”
“My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.”
Source: Stay
“My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves.”
“Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away,” Abban replied.”
Source: The Desert Spear
“My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.”
“My father said this to me: "Israelmore, if you don't make any impact on earth, you will die before you die. But if you impress hearts with what you do, you still live even after you are gone”
“My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.”
“My father said unmarked hands were a sign of a man who had not worked for his achievements. He was most likely referring to a future husband, but I decided that it was a standard I wished to hold myself to as well.”
Source: The Poisoner
“My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.”
“My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.”
“My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals'.”
“My father said, Bring along your best girl. This is something you say to a pimp!”
“My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.”
“My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.”
“My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?”
“My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."”
“My father sang to me. My mother whispered her strength into my ear.”
Source: Out of my mind
“My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.”
“My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.”
“My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.”
“My father says that fires are only dangerous if they get bored. Left alone they get frustrated and resort to evil. Best way to keep a fire happy is to let it lick food and hear stories”
Source: Age of Myth
“My father says that surviving a war makes you either very bitter or very frivolous.”
Source: The Idiot
“My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.”
Source: A Room with a View
“My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.”
Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant
“My father says you're to steal me away. Is that true?" Her lovely blue eyes flashed with mischief.
"Your father said that?" Rubbing the back of his neck, Declan met her eyes. "And what did you say about it?"
She dropped her bold gaze. "I told him that nothing so exciting ever happens around here.”
Source: Highland Eclipse
“My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.”
Source: Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht
“My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.”
Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens
“My father sent me away for a time to live in Dundee with a cousin, whose company, he hoped, would improve my solitude. But there is something of a lighthousekeeper in me, and I am not afraid of solitude, nor of nature in her wildness.
I found in those days that my happiest times were outside and alone, inventing stories of every kind, and as far from my real circumstances as possible. I became my own ladder and trapdoor to other worlds. I was my own disguise. The sight of a figure, far off, on some journey of his own, was enough to spark my imagination towards a tragedy or a miracle.
I was never bored except in the company of others.”
Source: Frankissstein: A Love Story
“My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my father's life, He had been an itinerant piano player and so traveled the road with bands and that sort of thing.”
“My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.”
“My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.”
“My father showed the exact sort of talent for a statesman. He could have divided Poland as easily as an orange, or trod on Ireland as quietly and systematically as any living.”
“My father sighed, hiding behind the sad smile that followed him like a shadow through life.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“My father sits in an armchair in the evenings with a board across the arms of the chair and the drawings on the board, going through them with a red pencil. Sometimes he laughs to himself while doing this, or shakes his head, or makes ticking noises through his teeth. “Idiot,” he says, or “blockhead.” I stand behind his chair, watching the drawings, and he points out that this person has put the mouth at the wrong end, that person has made no provision for a heart, yet another one cannot tell a male from a female. This is not how I judge the drawings: I find them better or worse depending on the colours.”
Source: Cat’s Eye
“My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician”
“My father slept here for years, letting us have the bedroom. That bed in there... I was born in that bed. My mother died in that bed. I hate that bed.' She ran a hand over the cracking wood of the cot's frame. Splinters snagged at her fingertips. 'But I hate this cot even more. He'd drag it in front of the fire every night and curl up there, huddling under the blankets. I always thought he looked so... so weak. Like a cowering animal. It enraged me.
'Does it enrage you now?' A casual, but careful question.
'It...' Her throat worked. 'I thought him sleeping here was a fitting punishment while we got the bed. It never occurred to me that he wanted us to have the bed, to keep warm and be as comfortable as we could. That we'd only been able to take a few items of furniture from our former home and he'd chosen the bed as one of them. For our comfort. So we didn't have to sleep on cots, or on the floor.' She rubbed at her chest. 'I wouldn't even let him sleep in the bed when the debtors shattered his leg. I was so lost in my grief and rage and... and sorrow, that I wanted him to feel a fraction of what I did.' Her stomach churned.
He squeezed her shoulder, but said nothing.
'He had to have known that,' she said hoarsely. 'He had to have known how awful I was, and yet... he never yelled. That enraged me, too. And then he named a ship after me. Sailed it into battle. I just... I can't understand why.'
'You were his daughter.'
'And that's an explanation?' She scanned his face, the sadness etched there. Sadness- for her. For the ache in her chest and the stinging in her eyes.
'Love is complicated.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.”
“My father some times he goes crazy, but sometimes nerves, crazy and mad in one place it's like daemon have started to control his life so he ended his life.”
“My father speaks for himself, through his music.”
“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.”
Source: Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
“My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.”
“My father started me singing in church.”
“My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.”
“My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.”
“My father still has two eyes,” Stiorra said.
“But not as beautiful as yours, my lady.”
“Did you come to waste our time?” Stiorra asked. “Or did you wish to surrender?”
“To you, my lady, I would surrender all I have, but my men? You can count?”
“I can count.”
“We outnumber you.”
Source: The Empty Throne
“My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor”
“My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words”
“My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind a podium in the front of a room. That journey, from behind that bar to behind this podium, goes to the essence of the American miracle - that we're exceptional not because we have more rich people here. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here.”
“My father struggled because he is an honest man. My Uncle struggled because he is an honest man. But I have become a bad man. I don't follow the rules of society.”
“My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.”