Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator “Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.” Thinking Father Butterfly ♥ 14
SS Sam Smith Singer “Our heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive; and at the same time more terrible to the workers of iniquity, more awful in the executions of His punishments, and more ready to detect in every false way, than we are apt to suppose Him to be.” Believe Father Blessing ♥ 14
TW Tennessee Williams Playwright “When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.” Looks Father Orchids ♥ 14
Saul Bellow Novelist “Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.” Father Brother Ambition ♥ 14
F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.” Years Father Advice ♥ 14
Ice Cube Rapper, Actor “I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.” Father House Los Angeles ♥ 14
Indira Gandhi Politician “As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.” Ideas Mind Father ♥ 14
Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher “Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.” Father Embrace Live Your Life ♥ 14
Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman “A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.” Father Husband Friendship ♥ 14
LD Lee De Forest Inventor “The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.” Children Eye Father ♥ 14
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.” Men Mother Father ♥ 14
Nikola Tesla Inventor, Electrical Engineer “Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.” Book Father Reading ♥ 14
