Losing A Father From A Son Quotes

1. "After some hours, the dogs, exhausted by running round, almost dead, their tongues hanging out, set upon one another and, not knowing what they are doing, tear one another into thousands of pieces with incredible rapidity. Yet they do not do this out of cruelty. One day, a glazed look in her eyes, my mother said to me: ‘When you are in bed and you hear the barking of the dogs in the countryside, hide beneath your blanket, but do not deride what they do: they have an insatiable thirst for the infinite, as you, and I, and all other pale, long-faced human beings do.' Since that time, I have respected the dead woman's wish. Like those dogs I feel the need for the infinite. I cannot, cannot satisfy this need. I am the son of a man and a woman, from what I have been told. This astonishes me…I believed I was something more."
Author: Comte De Lautréamont

2. "Dr. Murray points to the Nazarite system as what he calls an external scaffolding supporting human efforts at righteousness, reminding the participant that he is set apart. Christ, he said, needed no external reminder that the Father was His joy and that wine was not, that He was Life and was wholly Other from death, that He bore on Himself the shame that long hair but vaguely pointed to."
Author: David Murray

3. "Sulien held up the broken spear, one piece in each hand. "A warhammer did this?""You saw that hammer the Lightning almost hit Addolgar with. And that's not even the one he uses during battles. That one is bloody huge. Nearly asbig as the bastard's head."Her father chuckled and stepped around her. "The only purpose of this spear was to protect you—and it did. Its job is now done." He started tothrow the pieces into a bin he kept for trash."Don't you dare throw that out.""Why not? It's broken, and repairing it would be useless. It'l only break again.""But you made it for me.""You cling to what is meaningless, child. Just like your mother sometimes, only with her it's mostly grudges."
Author: G.A. Aiken

4. "The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape."
Author: Gloria Estefan

5. "I found this in the same box where the sketches were," she added, putting it in his outstretched palm."My father gave it to me when I was a boy," he said in an offhand voice. His long fingers closed around it, and he slipped it into his pocket."I think it may be very valuable," Elizabeth said, imagining the sorts of improvements he could make to his home and lands if he chose to sell the ring."As a matter of fact," Ian drawled blandly, "it's completely worthless."
Author: Judith McNaught

6. "God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey is she had her way."
Author: Kinley MacGregor

7. "There will be blood," he said quietly, "blood and death. You should not have come.""Since when was a woman afraid of blood?" she asked. "The problem is not only Sean's. It is mine also. If there is to be blood, I will share in the letting or the losing of it."
Author: Louis L'Amour

8. "I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it."
Author: Maria Shriver

9. "She saw at last that her strange son was fired by some purpose which he would carry out or die. Seeing that, she finally currendered--the first casualty of the Revolution in Virginia. In so far as she herself realized, the sacrifice was made for George Wahington, but subconsciously she made it for his cause--just as unaware and obeying by blind instinct the laws of her nature, she had made him to begin with out of stuff that had been in the wearving a thousand years."
Author: Nancy Byrd Turner

10. "My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me."
Author: Novak Djokovic

11. "And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver."
Author: Stephen King

12. "I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life."
Author: Stephen Tobolowsky

13. "I don't feel like losing to a fool."
Author: Tachibana Higuchi

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