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  • Parents Quote #1

    And if you are a mom who has watched your child’s father leave, my heart goes out to you. I also pray that you had no part in it. I pray that you didn’t make it impossible for him while he was there. I pray that you didn’t try and force him to live up to impossible expectations. And, I pray that if he is a good man and he wants to be there in his child’s life that you love your child enough to let him. Even if that seems impossible to you.

    Dan Pearce

  • Parents Quote #2

    And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

    Sydney J. Harris

  • Parents Quote #3

    And one day when you wake up, you happen to realise that your battle isn’t with the man you had got into a brawl with the other day, it isn’t with a friend turned foe, it isn’t with those parents who chose to give up on you, it isn’t with the bus driver for not having waited until you got in, it isn’t with the employer who cancelled the application to your leave, it isn’t with the examiner who resolved into failing you, it isn’t with the woman who did not reciprocate your feelings, it isn’t with child who dropped his ice-cream cone on you, it isn’t with your ill fate and it isn’t with that superior being above you.
    Your battle, your fight isn’t against the world but against yourself and the only way to come through all of it and beyond, to win, is improvement, self-improvement which needs to be gradual and progressive with the transverse of each day.

    Chirag Tulsiani

  • Parents Quote #4

    And what if the other kids laugh at me?” Kerry complained to her parents as she nibbled on a piece of toast that morning. “I have a Cape Breton accent! They’ll know I’m from Canada and they’ll start asking me if I lived in an igloo or ate maple syrup, bacon and seal meat every day!”

    “You’re really overreacting,” Susan chuckled, sipping on a glass of orange juice. “Canada is a lot like the States and the only thing separating both countries is an imaginary boarder! If anyone laughs at you, tell them it doesn’t snow year-round, you got free health care while you were there and that you never rode a polar bear to school. Besides, do you know how many popular movies and TV shows from the States were filmed in Canada?”

    “It’s not just the Canada stuff mom,” Kerry sighed worriedly. “I’m from Dym, it’s an industrial dump!”

    “Yeah, and have you looked at Pittsburgh lately?” Susan asked. “Full of coal mines and steel mills, just like Sydney was when we lived there! I actually rather came to like the pollution, I don’t think I’d ever want to leave it.

    Rebecca McNutt

  • Parents Quote #5

    And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

    Veronica Roth

  • Parents Quote #6

    Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

    Jeffrey Archer

  • Parents Quote #7

    As I saw it,
    all my mother's life, my father
    held her down, like
    lead strapped to her ankles.

    She was
    buoyant by nature;
    she wanted to travel,
    go to the theater, go to museums.
    What he wanted
    was to lie on the couch
    with the Times
    over his face,
    so that death, when it came,
    wouldn't seem a significant change.

    Louise Glück

  • Parents Quote #8

    As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

    Roz Chast

  • Parents Quote #9

    As parents we're meant to help each other out and build each other up.

    Galit Breen

  • Parents Quote #10

    As you pray for your children, you will find it to be an unending habit of your heart. Being able to positively affect your children in prayer will keep you in close contact with them and actively involved in their lives, even after they leave home. And it will continually contribute to your joy as a parent!

    Stormie Omartian

  • Parents Quote #11

    At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing and history. They’re turning their lives into stories, trying to make sense of them in retrospect and pass them on while there’s still time. You begin, embarrassingly belatedly, to see them as people with lives long preceding your own.

    Tim Kreider

  • Parents Quote #12

    At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood.

    Salman Rushdie

  • Parents Quote #13

    Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life.

    Charles R. Sledge Jr.

  • Parents Quote #14

    Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

    Sara Sheridan

  • Parents Quote #15

    Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Parents Quote #16

    Aw, man. I’d just shot an angel in the face.I made my way into the foyer and sat down on the stairs. I glanced up at the big old grandfather clock. It was going on ten. My folks would be home soon.
    “How was your evening, honey?”
    “Killed an angel.”
    “Well, isn’t that nice.”
    That wasn’t happening. Daddy never liked guns in the first place, Mother just pretended to. I was so grounded.

    Adrienne Kress

  • Parents Quote #17

    Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing.

    Sinclair Lewis

  • Parents Quote #18

    Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

    Katerina Stoykova Klemer

  • Parents Quote #19

    Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

    Shannon L. Alder

  • Parents Quote #20

    Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

    Jojo Moyes

  • Parents Quote #21

    Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.

    Jojo Moyes

  • Parents Quote #22

    Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.

    Jojo Moyes

  • Parents Quote #23

    Because the truth was, and we both knew it, he'd gone long, long ago. I'd just made him stick around when he really wanted to be somewhere else. In his own weird way, he was another victim of the shooting, One of the ones who couldn't get away.
    Are you mad? he asked, which I thought was a really strange question.
    Yes, I said. And I was. It's just that I wasn't so sure I was mad at him. But I don't think he needed to hear that part. I don't think he wanted to hear that part. I think it was important to him to hear that I cared enough to be angry.
    Will you ever forgive me? he asked.
    Will you ever forgive me? I shot back, leveling my gaze directly into his eyes.
    He stared into them for a few moments then got up silently and headed for the door. He didn't turn around when he reached it. Just grabbed the doorknob and held it.
    No, he said without facing me. Maybe that makes me a bad parent, but I don't know if I can. No matter what the police found, you were involved in that shooting, Valerie. You wrote those names on that list. You wrote my name on that list. You had a good life here. You might not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy.
    He opened the door.I'm sorry. I really am. He stepped out into the hallway. I'll leave my new address and phone number with your mother, he said before walking slowly out of my sight.

    Jennifer Brown

  • Parents Quote #24

    Becky -- he begins, and there's a tiny intake of breath around the churchyard. Will you--
    Yes! Yeee-esssss! I hear the joyful sound ripping through the churchyard before I even realize I've opened my mouth. I'm so charged up with emotion, my voice doesn't even sound like mine. In fact, it sounds more like...
    Mum.
    I don't believe it.

    Sophie Kinsella

  • Parents Quote #25

    Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

    Mokokoma Mokhonoana

  • Parents Quote #26

    Being at home was like a mattress to fall back on with the smallest of peas on the bottom, just large enough to bother the princess. I was damn lucky that I had a place to call home, but I didn't like the feeling of stealing my parents food and being unable to tell them when I could ever afford my own.

    Alida Nugent

  • Parents Quote #27

    Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

    Dave Eggers

  • Parents Quote #28

    Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.

    John Green

  • Parents Quote #29

    Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours.

    Jason L. Ma

  • Parents Quote #30

    But Dad looked delighted. My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?

    Gayle Forman

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