Remembering My Dad Quotes

#1. Grief should have been all-consuming. I hated myself that it wasn't. But sometimes I forgot. Jesus, how could I fucking forget? Sometimes I went for minutes without remembering my dad was dead, but that whole time it was regrouping so it could hit me all over again.

Lisa Henry

#2. I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

Peter Hedges

#3. In the shop, breathing the scent of dusty grease and oil; in the old house, staring into the living room where Dad and Jake used to take naps together on the couch; in the sheep barn, remembering the joy implicit in so much baaing life; in every inch of the farm, I recalled my father's presence.

Julene Bair

#4. Trying simply provides an excuse for not doing.

John Kessel

#5. If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.

David Daye

#6. Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. I've had one or two personal trainers at different times - and it's expensive, first of all - but they always make me feel uncomfortable because they're jocks who just yell at you.

John Gemberling

#8. He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.

Horace Greeley

#9. When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

Rick Springfield

#10. I'm convinced the storm's going to bust down the walls. Then it does and I'm remembering Dad's dream because it's happening.

Jandy Nelson

#11. I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

Daniel Defoe

#12. I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#13. To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

George Eliot

#14. I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

Michael Douglas

#15. My dad's life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline.

Lisa J. Shultz

#16. I run my fingers along its rough edges a moment, remembering the day Darian and I borrowed his dad's carving knife and engraved our initials in place.

Shannon Duffy

#17. Coercive redistribution of wealth through government's abuse of law and misapplication of rights destroys individual liberty; ambition, productivity, and wealth; and the purpose of the commonwealth.

Mark R. Levin