Anna Quindlen Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Father, Winning, Race

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

• My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Father, Years

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.209, Ballantine Books

• As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.

  Anna Quindlen

  Father, Kids, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Father, Years, Way

• People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father and his brothers and sisters and his mother are all people who would sit around with a Tom Collins and tell stories that seemed to get better and better each time they told them.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Brother, Father

• My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Father, Boys

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