“My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.”

“He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way.”

“My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.”

“As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.”

“That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father.”

“There was his father, looking totally different but exactly the same.“Hey, son,” his dad said, his voice bending in that weird way that America had started to shape it.”