Quotes About My Papa

#1. My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me ...

John Fogerty

#2. It is a hard thing to let your children near danger, and yet, I remember my Papa teaching me to fire a rifle before I could even hold it with my own strength. And if he hadn't trusted me to be careful, I would have never had faith in myself to do it.

Nancy E. Turner

#3. Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

Willa Cather

#4. My papa halfling," he answered, imitating Oliver's thick accent. "And

R.A. Salvatore

#5. You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

David Edwards

#6. Yessuh, you done had your share of rough seas. I reckon you don't need to have been on a big ship like my papa was to know what a hard journey feels like.

La'Chris Jordan

#7. My mama's white and my papa is black. I'm your worst fucking nightmare,

Tillie Cole

#8. I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

Richard P. Feynman

#9. Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

Markus Zusak

#10. This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.

Jacoby Shaddix

#11. Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.(Opening page, 3)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#12. All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

Armistead Maupin

#13. Because of baseball I smelled the rose of life. I wanted to travel, and to have nice clothes. Baseball allowed me to do all those things, and most important, during my time with the Crawfords, it allowed me to become a member of the brotherhood of friendship which will last forever.

Cool Papa Bell

#14. I do not cough for my own amusement,' replied Kitty fretfully to her Papa in 'Pride & Prejudice

Lynne Leonhardt

#15. I am not asking you to understand, Papa. I'm asking for you to accept."
"Accept what?"
Me. Accept me, Papa. "My decision to live my own life as I see fit."
It is so quiet that I suddenly wish I could take it back. Sorry, it was only a terrible joke. I should like a new dress, please.

Libba Bray

#16. I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#17. If I don't fight every day to 'fix' my eyes on Jesus, my ADD soul will look to a million lesser things.

Matt Papa

#18. Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child," Papa continued. "Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway got you. You are the man who killed my child. Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.

John Scalzi

#19. I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

Wm. Paul Young

#20. Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.

Antonio Banderas

#21. Don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding, do you even care if I die bleeding?

Papa Roach

#22. Where is your maman?
I don't know.
I think we've gone and lost her, Pea. Papa's voice dissolves into the colours behind my eyes.
I'm sorry Papa. I don't know how to find her, I say.

Claire King

#23. I will forgive,
but I wont forget,
and I hope you know,
you've lost my respect

Papa Roach

#24. I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#25. I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy, and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay home and knit like a poky old woman (Josephine)

Louisa May Alcott

#26. In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.

Clyde Edgerton

#27. When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

Katherine Dunn

#28. My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

Conor Oberst

#29. It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.

Luis Suarez

#30. On playing Batman and his daughter: If I was doing the sequel to Frozen I would be a hero. My two older daughters could give a sh-t about Batman and they've now passed that affection onto my son. He's always like, 'Papa, can I watch Frozen?' And I'm like, 'No, dude, it's not on again!'.

Ben Affleck

#31. Just take me with you. Please.
I cant.
Please, Papa.
I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.

Cormac McCarthy

#32. It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

Sam Levenson

#33. Bullying new comics at open mic nights? NOT ON MY WATCH!

Papa CJ

#34. It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

Chaim Potok

#35. Shylock repointed his twitching, accusatory digit at his daughter. "You do not say such things in my house. You - you - you - you - " "Run along, love, it appears that Papa's been stricken with an apoplexy of the second person.

Christopher Moore

#36. My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks.

Alain Ducasse

#37. Oh, Papa. My heart's broke.

Robert Newton Peck

#38. Man: Has anyone ever told you you're beautiful?

Me: Oh no sir, today is my first day out of doors and papa forbade mirrors in the house lest we fall victim to vanity

Unknown

#39. My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.

Matt Papa

#40. Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don't need to know what lies ahead. For now it's enough just to be here, safe aboard the Morning Star with my family and friends. For now, it's enough to be home.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#41. I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut
My weakness is that I care too much
And my scars remind me that the past is real
I tear my heart open just to feel

Papa Roach

#42. One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.

Satchel Paige

#43. I couldn't imagine I should find you. Why, I mighthave gone on all my life till I was inconceivably old - as old as your Papa - without ever finding you, or knowing even that you were anywhere that could be found

Elizabeth Anna Hart

#44. Losing my sight, losing my mind, i wish somebody would tell me im fine. I never realized i was spread too thin untill it was too late and i was empty within. Hungry, feeding on chaos and living on sin.

Papa Roach

#45. You must learn to respect," Papa said.
But I do not respect her," I said.
Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.

Lawrence Hill

#46. Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.

Martha Finley

#47. This is my last resort suffocation no breathing don't give a f**k if I cut my arm bleeding this is my last resort ...

Papa Roach

#48. I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

Joseph Jackson

#49. I covered his thumbprint with my thumb and considered for the first time that Papa might have been more than just old pictures - old, repeated stories.

Wally Lamb

#50. A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite ... What are you going to be? And he says ... An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night.

Carew Papritz

#51. I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.

David Mitchell

#52. Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago.

Bobbi Brown

#53. God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped.
"God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife
if I don't murder you first.

Judith McNaught

#54. My wife thinks a B&B is a romantic getaway. I think it's creepy, sharing coffee with strangers who were eavesdropping on you the night before.

Tom Papa

#55. As he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and Papa's death and I wished with all my heart that she could understand how it felt to be us that night - how it felt to be eighteen and unbeaten, eighteen and alive.

Eva Rice

#56. As I left I heard Ramses say, 'May I remark, Papa, dat alt'ough your consideration for my sensitivities was quite unnecessary, I am not without a proper appreciation of de sentiment dat prompted it.

Elizabeth Peters

#57. My daddy, or papa as Ilike to call him is always healthy. Sure, he had the herpes but he managed it very well!

Santino Marella

#58. Because Days come and go but my feelings for you are forever, one last kiss before I go, dry your tears, it is time to let you go

Papa Roach

#59. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls.

Henrik Ibsen

#60. My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

Tupac Shakur

#61. Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.

Henrik Ibsen

#62. I really feel myself to be a human who struggles, but the most important thing is my work as a papa.

Jai Uttal

#63. I understood that one's environment is a key to one's identity, but that my environment, Papa Song's, was a key I had lost.

David Mitchell

#64. If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.

Patricia Briggs

#65. Some people ask me whether I'm a "mama's girl" or a "papa's girl". I'm *nobody's* girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

Hayden Panettiere

#66. I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"

Richard Patrick

#67. In the brightest hour of my darkest day, I realized what is wrong with me"
~Forever

Papa Roach