More Quotes
Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'. ― Fredrik Backman
I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
Most parents think that the commands they give their children are merely suggestions wrapped with lovingness. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
Some parents sometimes use junk food as a babysitter. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I blinked. Because even though my dad never, ever complained about being a young dad, I always wondered about his regrets. How his need to keep abandoned, sad things might apply to me, too. ― Maurene Goo
watching his son in quick pulses of attention. ― Thomas Pynchon
A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets. ― Raymond Chandler
The handy thing about being a father is that the historical standard is so pitifully low. ― Michael Chabon
