Wilbur Smith Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

  Wilbur Smith

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

• I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Years, Safari

• I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Holiday, Pride

• Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Hero, Boys

• My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Air, Yards

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