Quotes About Papa

Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think" -Papa

Why do you have to study together?" Mr. Ray asked. "When I was a boy we didn't study in droves. And what help is all the fudge?" "Nourishment, Papa, nourishment," Betsy explained. "We need strength.

You are far too lovely, my dear, for there to be any need for you to be a 'bluestocking'. I have no wish to be that. At the same time Papa always said that a pretty face is a good introduction, but a man wants something more if he to enjoy the company of one woman for the rest of his life.

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

By the time Papa came on the scene, Georgia had regained self-government and was bound and determined to keep it, despite the best efforts of Yankee imperialists who liked nothing better than to tell other folks how to live their lives.

Can your heart swoop? That's what Billy wondered. In th first minutes on the porch with Papa when everyone was hugging and kissing and talking at once, that's what it felt like - it felt like Billy's heart was swooping inside him.

I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

T.R.'s real name was Theodore Roosevelt. He was just a puppy when Papa took me to Atlanta to hear the president speak; I named him Theodore Roosevelt when I got home that day—then shortened it to T.R. so folks wouldn't think my dog was a Republican.

The King smoothed the blanket on Thackeray's back. He opened his mouth, and shut it. Then he opened it again, and after a moment, said, "You used to call me Papa, do you remember that?" The question took Azalea back. "No," she said.

There was a word Papa always shook his head after pronouncing—it was "bank." Frank wasn't sure which of the three things that could go wrong at a bank Papa was worried about—the bank "going under," the bank "cutting him off," or the bank getting robbed.

Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.

Mr. Leaphorn," the man said. "Papa said you coming.

Love is a pest and papa knows the best.

She stumbled as if in a dream. But this wasn't a dream. It was a real dead body…in Papa's trunk.

El papa Benedicto XVI había dicho que la pederastia se consideraba normal hasta fecha tan reciente como los años setenta. [...] - Benedicto dijo: Nada es bueno o malo en sí mismo. Dijo nada, Clark -repitió Juan Diego a su exalumno-. La pederastia no es nada; seguramente la pederastia sí es mala en sí misma, Clark.

My own literary work, on the contrary, was always done as quietly and methodically as a piece of tapestry. I knew exactly what I had got to say, put the words firmly in their places like so many stitches, hemmed the edges of the chapters round with what seemed to me graceful flourishes, touched them finally with my cunningest points of colour, and read the work to papa and mamma at breakfast next morning, as a girl shows her sampler. Praeterita, Volume 2

After the eleventh century, the title papa was used exclusively for the bishop of Rome.

Very well. I'm confident Papa told you about our missed connection aboard the Grimm vessel." "What's a vessel?" Daphne asked. "The layman calls it a boat," Pinocchio explained. "What's a layman?" Daphne asked. "Oh dear. The schools in this town are failing the youth," Pinocchio said.

What's your horse's name?" I asked Grandfather. "Jack," said Grandfather. "Papa had a horse named Jack, too," I told him. Grandfather didn't answer. "Sarah's right. You and Papa are alike," I said. I knew Grandfather wouldn't answer. And he didn't.