"I could only relate [to the family] that I, the father of three sons, could hardly imagine what it would be to lose one, far less three of my boys, in such a cruel and senseless manner."

-- William Walker

#Father Quotes #Son Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Grownups have to say 'please,' too.”
“I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.
“My family really does come first. It always did and always will.”
“I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.”
“No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.”
“When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.”
“What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?”
“Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.”

Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.118, Delacorte Press

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