Sherman Alexie Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Giving, Healthy

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.178, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.107, Open Road Media

• My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

  Sherman Alexie

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

• My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Home, Sober Up

  "All rage and heart" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

• My father is an amazing man.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Men, Amazing Man

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