Mitch Albom Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

  Mitch Albom

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.77, Hachette UK

• Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.' She touched his hand. 'You need to forgive your father.' ~pgs 141-142

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Hate, Moving

• ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Daughter, Regret

• Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.

  Mitch Albom

  Daughter, Mother, Regret

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

• Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Kids, Trying

• My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Father, Italian

  "For One More Day". Book by Mitch Albom, September 26, 2006.

• My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Spring, Father

  Mitch Albom (2012). “Dienstags bei Morrie: Die Lehre eines Lebens”, p.126, Goldmann Verlag

• I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Father, Believe

• A wind blew, and the sand around his drawing scattered. He wrapped his fingers inside his wife's, and Father Time rekindled a connection he had only ever had with her. He surrendered to that sensation and felt the final drops of their lives touch one another, like water in a cave, top meets bottom, Heaven meets Earth. As their eyes closed, a different set of eyes opened, and they rose from the ground as a shared south, up and up, a sun and a moon in a single sky.

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Eye, Moon

• But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Thieves, Way

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.108, Hachette UK

• My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Feelings, Emotion

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