David Eddings Quotes

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?" "No, Matthew. What do they say?" "The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.

There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

My father told me, "Don't do anything that would bring shame to the family." I was always mindful of that. When I told him I wanted to pursue a career as an actor, my father said, "Look at what you see on television at the movies, is that what you want to be doing? Do you want to make a life out of that?" And I said, "Daddy, I'm going to change it".

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

As the fathers live, so the children play.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. "And what am I to do there?" "Rule," his father said curtly.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

I have teenage boys and I think teenage boys require a father to have eyeballs on them at all times.

Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.

I would never get married while my father is still alive because I wouldn't want him to walk me down the aisle.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.