Terry Pratchett Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'

  Terry Pratchett

  Father, Voice, Want

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.31, Random House

• They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.

  Terry Pratchett

  Father, Eye, Long Ago

• If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.

  Terry Pratchett

  Goodbye, Father, Bed

• The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jesus, Father, Community

• When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

  Terry Pratchett

  Song, Father, Singing

• Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dad, Growing Up, Father

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