“I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.” YearsLongRealCoursesFatherFeltCryOne DayLateSickTwentiesFinalsGuiltyBrokeFuneralLate Twenties Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.” PersonsMotherFatherPiecesBrokenPicksStrangerBrokeShakesOur LoveOur FatherBroken Pieces Author:Tarryn Fisher
“From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.” HeartTwoHandsMotherFatherBitsSonFolksContraryBroke Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.” FirstsWarSchoolFatherForceOpinionClassMiddleMilitaryMembersMy FamilyUniversityConservativeBritishBackgroundsBrokeMiddle ClassTypicalNavyJoiningArmed ForcesMobilityNavalPrivate SchoolUpward Mobility Author:Christopher Hitchens