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"I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader."

Geraldine Brooks on Dad

More quotes about Dad

  • "It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."

    Pope John XXIII on Dad

  • "When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Dad

  • "My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

    Eminem on Dad

  • "I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."

    Hedy Lamarr on Dad

  • "Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Dad

More quotes by Geraldine Brooks

  • "I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they'd say, 'Oh she's so old,' and she's all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage, and I hope to be able to keep doing it as long as I can get away with it, yeah."

  • "Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep."

  • "There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us."

  • "September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage."

  • "Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books."

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