Memory Of My Father Quotes by Whittaker Chambers, Yehuda Amichai, Theodore Hesburgh, Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Valvano and many others.
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father – dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.
My main memories of my father are of his illness.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
