My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the enduring impact of a parent's love and influence throughout one's life.
P. L. Travers poignantly expresses the profound connection she shares with her father, who passed away when she was young. The quote highlights the idea that the love and lessons imparted by a parent resonate throughout a person's life, shaping their perceptions and interactions with others, emphasizing that every elder embodies a part of her father's legacy.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a family gathering to honor a deceased loved one.
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction
My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.
It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
Imagine a world where mothers take as good care of themselves as they do their children and a world where mothers are so supported they're able to do that. That's the world we all need to create because our children, families, and communities are depending on us.
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