John Updike Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Education, Children, Father

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

• You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

  John Updike

  Wisdom, Father, Ideas

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.129, Random House

• My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

  John Updike

  Father, Fall, Clothes

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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