Pat Conroy Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

  Pat Conroy

  Father, Childhood, Parent

• My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

  Pat Conroy

  Father, Childhood, Let Me

• If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

  Pat Conroy

  Sports, Father, Thinking

• Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

  Pat Conroy

  Basketball, Father, Knowing

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.51, Random House

• 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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