Calvin Trillin Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Taken, Food

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

• Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Thinking, Yale

• It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Grocers, Given

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