“I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.”
Source: How Green Was My Valley
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British novelist 1906–1983Related quotes
Chagall stated this in 1950
as quoted in From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture, Matthew B. Hoffman; Stanford University Press, 2007, p. 219
after 1930
1819; the Spaniards had sent Guerrero's father to plead for an end to Guererro's rebellion. http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/jtuck/jtvguerrero.html
“My lord, I have heard that your father was a military man. Was that the case?”
To Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington, son of Field Marshall Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as quoted in Handy-book of Literary Curiosities (1892) by William Shepard Walsh, p. 511.
“My father…was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.”
The Third Policeman (1967)
On his family
Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story
Pt. 1, ch. 11
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.”
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, (1802)
The last three lines of this form the introductory lines of the long Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood begun the next day.
Context: My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
As quoted in Marvin Zonis (1991), Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah, p. 57.
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