Bill Bryson Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

  Bill Bryson

  Father, Son, Thinking

• I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.

  Bill Bryson

  Father, Dawn, Overcoming

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.12, VNR AG

• Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.

  Bill Bryson

  Father, Kids, Men

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.61, VNR AG

• Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.

  Bill Bryson

  Father, Son, Done

  Bill Bryson (1990). “The Mother Tongue”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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