P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Papa says that some people seem mean, but they're just sad inside.”
Source: All the Flowers in Paris
“Papa!” she whispered. “I have no eyes!”
He patted the girl’s hair. She’d fallen into his trap. “With a smile like that,” Hans Hubermann said, “you don’t need eyes.”
Source: The Book Thief
“Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don't need to know what lies ahead. For now it's enough just to be here, safe aboard the Morning Star with my family and friends. For now, it's enough to be home.”
Source: The Education of Patience Goodspeed
“Papa tells me, “Be patient with yourself, one stitch at a time. By going too fast, you can miss the details of the process. It’s best to take your time and enjoy each moment.”
Source: Papa the Shoemaker
“Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.”
Source: Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost
“Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. That's how the world is made.”
Source: A Tale of Love and Darkness
“Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.”
“Papa, why are you selling our goats? I like these goats."
"A week ago the price was five hundred, now it's four hundred. I'm sorry, but we can't wait for it go any lower."
Mankhalala and the others were tied by their front legs with a long rope. When my father started down the trail, they stumbled and began to cry. They knew their future. Mankhalala looked back, as if telling me to help him. Even Khamba whined and barked a few times, pleading their case. But I had to let them down. What could I do? My family had to eat.”
Source: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“Papa, why do we have to learn this?”
“White folks expect us to sound a certain way and it can only help if we don’t disappoint them,” I said. “The only ones who suffer when they are made to feel inferior is us. Perhaps I should say ‘when they don’t feel superior.”
Source: James
“Papa! You painted my nose!"
"I certainly did," her father said.
"But why?" Belle tried to see the purple dot on her face.
Maurice grinned. "Because that mark makes you even more beautiful. Different and special from the inside out, just like your fantastic doll. And just like your mother, who you look and act more like every day."
Belle eyed her father suspiciously. "A purple mark does all that?"
"Yes. Because it's yours and only yours," Maurice said.”
Source: Belle's Discovery
“Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to discuss with you. I want you to know that whatever he asks, I don't want you...for my sake...well, please, just agree. Please him, do you understand?" "No garrista who loves life has ever tried to do otherwise. You think I'm inclined to walk in on a day like today and deliberately twist his breeches? If your father says 'bark like a dog' I say 'What breed, Your Honour?”
“Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.”
Source: Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
“Papa, do you like my new friend?" Frances Catherine asked when they were halfway across the field. "I surely do." "Can I keep her?" "For the love of...No, you can't keep her. She isn't a puppy. You can be her friend, though," he hastily added before his daughter could argue with him. "Forever, papa?" She 'd asked her father that question, but Judith answered her. "Forever," she shyly whispered. Frances Catherine reached across her father's chest to take hold of Judith's hand. "Forever," she pledged.”
“Papa, I'm ashamed that you think women are so simple. We can make decisions for ourselves too, you know. I'm not a child or a baby anymore, so I'm allowed to speak my mind. And if you don't wish to hear it, just tell me so and I'll go into another room-but I'll speak it anyway. I want this for myself as much as I've never wanted the diplomatic corps and I'm going to get it-even if I have to do it alone. Excuse me.”
“Papa, please get the moon for me.”
Source: Stories for All Seasons
“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.”
“Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread and unchallenged ignorance to sustain their claims to power. Both are doomed as viable alternatives for the long- range future of anyone.”
Source: Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity
“Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap test.”
“Paparazzi always made me really uncomfortable.”
“Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.
Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'
Hugh: 'Pained?”
Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
“Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.”
“Paparazzi Pepperoni by Stewart Stafford
Gladiatrix in an algorithmic arena;
Jane of all trades, influencer of none,
Duckface pose in a selfie pout,
A zillion zombies waiting online.
Her fall from filtered grace was swift:
A subscribed intimate pact by proxy,
Fame, meat for a pixelated lupine mob,
Her downfall contracted in a dopamine hit.
Fire overnight, smouldering ruins by day,
Her virtual world crumbled around her,
Stepped off the ledge into digital oblivion,
Her fallen camera will fit another’s hand.
Posthumous branding in overdrive,
Her agent commodified the loss,
Only fans devoured the real her,
A paywall phantom on cyber-loop.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“Paparazzi’s lens steals my peace for profit” — , S Mera (character) Film Paparazzi get the cameras in their face”
“Paparazzi will sit outside my house to see where I'm going, and when they see it's the studio, they'll be like, "This is boring," and drive off. But you'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.”
“Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.”
“Papas and mammas sometimes ask young men whether their intentions are honourable toward their daughters. I think young men might occasionally ask papas and mammas whether their intentions are honourable before they accept invitations to houses where there are still unmarried daughters.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh
“Papayas get along nicely without depending for guidance upon artificial laws made by other papayas, and this indicates that they have more intelligence than human beings.”
“Pape Satan, Pape Satan, Aleppe!”
Source: Inferno
“Papel, cordel e cola.
Separadamente, eram apenas objectos à espera de um propósito. Em conjunto eram partes de um todo.”
“Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.”
“Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.”
“Paper and Pencil, Go! You are the stencil.”
“Paper buys time. Steel buys freedom.”
“Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.”
“Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.”
“Paper cuts are like battle scars for the academic...I, on the other hand, am best friends with Wikipedia.”
Source: Lying Out Loud
“Paper gains do not equal cash on cash returns”
“Paper has more patience than people.”
“Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.”
“Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.”
“Paper is more patient than man.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!”
“Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.”
“Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
Source: Correspondence
“Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.”
“Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.”
“Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.”
“Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.”
Source: The Blind Assassin