Fathers And Daughters Quotes
Fathers And Daughters Quote of the day
A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.
All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.
Keep your heart wide open and you’ll be received with open hearts — not by everyone, but to be received by one open heart is more than worth the journey.
Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize that he is just a man
But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.
My dad’s life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline.
My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.
For someone so intuitive, ” he said, shaking his head, “sometimes you only see what you expect to see.
Darling Daddy, This is Rose.The shed needs new wires now it has blown up.Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they will do for Mummy. Instead of you.Love, Rose.
It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.
Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.
These two Joes—the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer—were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.
She’ll find you. Her need to know you will eventually consume her.
He is a demon, Clarissa, ” said Valentine, still in the same soft voice. “A demon with a man’s face. I know how deceptive such monsters can be. Remember, I spared him once myse
I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.
She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.
I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.
A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.
I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.
When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.
Help your fatherAs he ages And loses his strengthFor it was he who sheltered youAnd protected you from the stormsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom