“And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.” WantFeelsYearsTwoHandsLastsFatherLeftMinesDadPaperLateLettersSickTradeFilledMy DadBusyConnectedLegacyToo LateTouchedTwo YearsHugNotebookToo BusyHandwriting Author:Lakshmi Pratury
“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
“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies” Has BeensMotherSufferingFatherMy OwnPartySolitudeSickBitterServantChairsAbandonedTiedAgonyAmusedPerishing Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.” KnowsMenChildrenDoeCareRunningMotherFatherParentPolicyDeserveSickMadHardshipEpisodesWorkplaceDays OffMad MenSick Children Author:Barack Obama
“I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.” FatherFunPoorSickSouthPlumberBronxJewish Family Author:Leonard Susskind