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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. -- Charles Dickens
Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' -- W. H. Auden
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' -- Sam Levenson
It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly. -- Chaim Potok
Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers. -- Rick James
Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety. -- Vivian Gornick
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask. -- Charles Bukowski
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. -- Katherine Dunn
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. -- Thornton Wilder
Te Papa Museum is brilliant. -- Richard C. Armitage
Papa died when he was 77. -- Manolo Blahnik
Papa, please get the moon for me. -- Eric Carle
Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Papa Roach are not just going to take tours just to take tours. -- Tony Palermo
Whenever Papa said, 'Jump,' I was always the first one in the air. -- Ann B. Ross
mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too. -- William P. Young
Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen. -- Garth Brooks
You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say. -- August Wilson
There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth. -- Richie Sambora
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' -- W. H. Auden
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. -- Anna Freud
Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books. -- Natalie S. Bober
The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid. -- Liv Ullmann
Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly. -- Tupac Shakur
Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said. "Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal. -- Martine Leavitt
They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us. -- Cormac McCarthy
Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get. -- Budd Schulberg
If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say. -- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us. -- James Brown
In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me. -- Clyde Edgerton
Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results. -- Katherine Dunn
Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns. -- Harry S. Truman
You have a wound too, Papa." Hanna took Brigan's left hand, which was wrapped in a bandage, and inspected it. "Did you throw the first punch? -- Kristin Cashore
Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out. -- Markus Zusak
Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you." -Liesel -- Markus Zusak
One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second. -- Satchel Paige
We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that. -- Tony Palermo
Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant. -- Cormac McCarthy
He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him. -- Diana Wynne Jones
I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
It's just a mild disagreement, Papa. Remi has this whole need to breathe in and out, which annoys me. If he would just stop breathing, I'd be fine. (Aimee) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa." -- Jacques Pepin
One night I was layin' down,I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out. -- John Lee Hooker
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours. -- Anna Freud
I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, 'Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!' -- Marjane Satrapi
You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect. -- Lawrence Hill
Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me. -- Antonio Banderas
Papa was no longer fixing a carburetor: he was setting up a greasy little Cuban missile base smack-dab in the middle of Mama's immaculate Washington, D.C. It was a flagrant act of war. -- David James Duncan
Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own. -- Billie Holiday
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden. -- Leo Buscaglia
When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go. -- Robert Hunter
Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view. -- John Brunner
She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up. -- Betty Smith
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself. -- Charles Dickens
All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for -- William Saroyan
I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John's pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I'm pretty private. -- Jared Padalecki
After doing those MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e and Nickelback shows where the demographic is a little older, Papa Roach got a lot of fans from those tours. And now we have parents saying "Yeah my kids are into you guys!" It's cool. -- Tony Palermo
The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can go up to heaven and mermaids can't, you (Daria) said, 'See that's like Papa. He lives in heaven. With the angels' -- Ekaterina Gordeeva
My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks. -- Alain Ducasse
Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. You would never see white people doing that. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I filled in for Papa Roach because we weren't doing much. Unwritten Law had a few more shows booked, but I got the call to fill in again at the end of the year. I was like, "I have to make myself available to these guys." -- Tony Palermo
Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago. -- Bobbi Brown
Actually, when I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody's house - it was an event and he happened to be there. People would ask me if I was his son, because I looked like him at that point, so I do remember feeling some connection and just wanting to say, like, 'Papa!' -- Simon Helberg
Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes. -- Markus Zusak
I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens. -- Imogen Poots
And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete, -- Victor Villasenor
The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa. -- Charles Baudelaire
My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment. -- Benazir Bhutto
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace. -- Marilynne Robinson
It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work. -- Luis Suarez
I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. -- Richard P. Feynman
I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part. -- Joseph Jackson
Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door. -- Hayden Panettiere
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable. -- Eugene Jarecki
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere. -- David Edwards
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday. -- Charles M. Blow
God first, then papa. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack -- Tupac Shakur
...my papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me... -- John Fogerty
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.] -- Thomas a Kempis
I really feel myself to be a human who struggles, but the most important thing is my work as a papa. -- Jai Uttal
It's nice when they notice the deep voice from across the house, and they know it's papa. They know it's Dad. -- Matthew McConaughey
My daddy, or papa as Ilike to call him is always healthy. Sure, he had the herpes but he managed it very well! -- Santino Marella
My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life. -- Conor Oberst
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa. -- James M. Barrie
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others. -- Charles Dickens
I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!" -- Richard Patrick
Life is like that." papa turned once again to the MekongEverything is connected, and sometimes we, like little fishes, are awept up in these big and powerful currents. Carried far from home..." -- Vaddey Ratner
Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist. -- Christina Stead
You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for. -- David James Duncan
I once caught a bid, I never hit skid, Never date a girl if the girl got a kid. Nahhh...papa's got a brand new bag And I never hit skinz once they sag. -- Grand Puba
All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life. -- Armistead Maupin

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