Papa Quotes - Page 4

• Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

  Katherine Dunn

  Thinking, Odds, Giving

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.131, Vintage

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• Papa, please get the moon for me.

  Eric Carle

  Moon, Please

  Eric Carle (1998). “Stories for All Seasons”, Simon & Schuster

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• 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

  Father, Daddy, Cases

  "'Papadaddy' Clyde Edgerton advises other 'older dads'". Interview with Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2013.

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• 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

  Father, Boys, Mama

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• 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

  Thinking, Words Of Wisdom, Asking

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.388, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Girl, Hours, Rational

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• Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

  Anna Freud

  Fixed, Unexplained, Psychoanalytic

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• Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is...not us." "Who are Jewish people?" "You know my oldest customer, Mr. Kaufmann? Where we bought your shoes?" "Yes." "Well, he's Jewish." "I didn't know that. Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a license?" ..... "...you've got beautiful blond hair and big safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Eye, Son

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• Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

  Harry S. Truman

  Children, Home, Kids

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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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

  Strong, Growing Up, Want

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• Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

  Willa Cather

  Real, Years, Looks

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Boys, Men, Worry

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• I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Eye, Two

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• When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Disappointment, Growing Up

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• 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

  Disrespect, Legs, Moments

  Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.

  Truman Capote

  Baby, Morning, Wall

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you." -Liesel

  Markus Zusak

  Goodbye, Play, Liesel

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• Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her, to love her. He came every night and sat with her. The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered, "Shhh, I'm here, it's all right." After three weeks he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. The girl knew from the outset that Hans Hubermann would always appear midscream, and he would not leave. (36)

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Couple, Night

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• mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

  William P. Young

  Mistake, Purpose, Parts Of Life

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• All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for

  William Saroyan

  Lonely, Two, Different

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• She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.

  Betty Smith

  Song, Heart, Dancing

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• 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

  Son, Arms, Take Me

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

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• All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Distance, Sight, Perception

  Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.159

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• In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.

  Arlene Dahl

  Dream, Home, Men

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• Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

  Vivian Gornick

  Boredom, Anxiety, Causes

  Vivian Gornick (2005). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, p.23, Macmillan

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