Papa famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal -
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
-- Anna Freud -
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
-- Anna Freud -
You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
-- August Wilson -
She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.
-- Betty Smith -
Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.
-- Billie Holiday -
My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.
-- Cass Elliot -
It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
-- Chaim Potok -
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
-- Charles Dickens -
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.
-- Charles Dickens -
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
-- Charles Dickens -
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 -
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 -
They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.
-- David James Duncan -
He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.
-- Diana Wynne Jones -
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.
-- Eugene Jarecki -
You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?â€(Elizabeth Ombersley) “No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!†“Augustus,†announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, “will be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!†“By his creditors? I don’t doubt it.
-- Georgette Heyer -
I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
-- Imogen Poots -
I never won an Oscar... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas
-- Irene Papas -
Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best". But it is precisely because Papa does not know best that I believe that Government should not presume to tell any businessman or industrialist what he should or should not do, far less what he may or not do; and no matter how it may be dressed up that is what planning is.
-- John James Cowperthwaite -
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 -
You have a wound too, Papa." Hanna took Brigan's left hand, which was wrapped in a bandage, and inspected it. "Did you throw the first punch?
-- Kristin Cashore -
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 -
The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.
-- Liv Ullmann -
These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them.
-- Ralph Steiner -
There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.
-- Richie Sambora -
Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a ***** was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?
-- Sabrina Jeffries -
Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
Papa Roach are not just going to take tours just to take tours.
-- Tony Palermo -
We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.
-- Tony Palermo -
I never won an Oscar...and the Oscars never won Irene Papas.
-- Irene Papas
