Pat Conroy Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

  Pat Conroy

  Mom, Children, Dad

• We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.759, Open Road Media

• Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.

  Pat Conroy

  Children, Thinking, Quality

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Water Is Wide: A Memoir”, p.182, Open Road Media

• The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

  Pat Conroy

  Country, Children, Warrior

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.144, Nan A. Talese

• Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

  Pat Conroy

  Children, Men, Taught Us

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

• My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Children, Father

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.144, Nan A. Talese

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