My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to … - Diana Gabaldon

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

Diana Gabaldon

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

Daylight, Daylights, Father, Idiot, Parenting, Wasna

Same Author Quotes

Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.

Bed, Hand, Hands, Lap, Sleep

Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

Fascinating, Know, Scholar, Song, Sound, Thrush

Home is the place where they have to take you in

Home, Place, Take

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

Long, Man, Men, Sky, Story, Two

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

Autumn, Beautiful, Blue, Drown, Fall, Like

Similar Quotes

Cornelius Vanderbilt

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

Enemies, Enemy, God, Look, Looks, Not Afraid

Carolyn Heilbrun

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]

Beings, Believe, Courage, Faced, Struggle, Writing

Dallin H. Oaks

Young people, if you honor your fathers, you will love them, respect them, confide in them, be considerate of them, express appreciation for them, and demonstrate all of these things by following their counsel in righteousness and by obeying the commandments of God.

Appreciation, Demonstrate, Father, God, Obeying, People

Phyllis McGinley

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Immature, Pass, People, Sick, Ugly

Abbie Hoffman

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Decorum, Dignity, Men, Repression, Speaks Out