Rest In Paradise Dad Quotes & Sayings

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again — Michael Ondaatje

What do we want from our mothers when we are children? Complete submission. Oh, it's very nice and rational and respectable to say that a woman has every right to her life, to her ambitions, to her needs, and so on--it's what I've always demanded myself--but as a child, no, the truth is it's a war of attrition, rationality doesn't come into it, not one bit, all you want from your mother is that she once and for all admit that she is your mother and only your mother, and that her battle with the rest of life is over. She has to lay down arms and come to you. And if she doesn't do it, then it's really a war, and it was a war between my mother and me. Only as an adult did I come to truly admire her--especially in the last, painful years of her life--for all that she had done to claw some space in this world for herself. — Zadie Smith

That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time. — J.D. Salinger

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. — Dawn French

The only thing more compelling than love is power. — Claudia Gray

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender. — Santiago Calatrava