Parents Quotes

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

~ Jeannette Walls

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

~ Dean Koontz

... education is the second food a parent can give a child.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him, they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth as you choke and gag and spit it out? Do you still hear his voice in your head urging you to eat? Eat, eat eat. Your mother's cries. Do you hear them? You should be Bruce. Because I know that it's never left you alone. Now you can eat what you want to eat. For me, for you, for all the others. Now you can consume to your heart's content or your soul's destruction, whichever comes first. So eat.

~ Irvine Welsh

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

If you are a good parent, please continue to be a good one. But if you are bad parent, today is a great new beginning for you to start a great new chapter of parenthood.

~ Hafiz

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

The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

~ Kate Chopin

the toilet is an intimacyonly shared with parents when you are youngand once again when they are olderand with lovers when say on a Sundaymorning stretching into the bathroomyou wake to the sound of stream into bowland go to hug the naked bodystood with its back to you and kiss the neckand taste the whole of the night on thereand smell the morning’s pale yellow lossand take the whole of him in your handand feel the water moving through himand knowing that this is love the prone fleshwhat we expel from the body and what we let inside

~ Andrew Mcmillan

Home is our greatest place of trials.

~ Muhammad Bin Muhammad

Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realise that your parent is complicated, and fallible and human.

~ Vikki Wakefield

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

~ Quetzal

An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to teach their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home.

~ Raymond S. Moore

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

~ Faraaz Kazi

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

Whatever you do in this lifetime, strive to make your parents happy and proud

~ Charmaine J. Forde

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

~ Gregory Maguire

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.

~ Jeannette Walls

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

~ Jason L. Ma

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

~ Gayle Forman

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.

~ Salman Rushdie

I love you unconditionally, his mom had said, once or twice, when he was younger. That’s how parents love. I love you no matter what. People said things like that, without thinking of potential nightmare scenarios or horrific conditions, the whole world changing and love slipping away. None of them ever dreamed love would be tested, and fail.

~ Cassandra Clare

Now our father lived in a world where we didn’t belong, with a needy girlfriend who didn’t look much older than Henri, a saltwater pool in need of daily skimming, and a flashy Porsche that needed to be raced around the roads of wine country.Fortunately, we didn’t need him either—that’s what Henri said.

~ Jessica Taylor

If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. 'If you ain't scared of standing up for what's right, you ain't standing up for much.

~ Kenneth Logan

I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?

~ Kenneth Logan

Please your mother: just lie around upstairs and smoke some pot. Be a revolutionary.

~ Kenneth Logan

She kissed me on the cheek, and my mom sang Theresa’s name from the open front door. She loves Theresa. I think she loves me more when I’m with her.

~ Kenneth Logan

I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.

~ Kenneth Logan

It was duck apocalypse!

~ Kenneth Logan

Dude,” he said instead, “I’m flattered as hell.” And then he kicked my foot, lightly, twice. He was smiling.He couldn’t see the chasm that had opened behind my ribs.

~ Kenneth Logan

I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.

~ Kenneth Logan

I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

~ Kenneth Logan

I do like the way people behave toward me and Theresa when we’re together-everyone’s voice changes to music, and we get all sorts of smiles.

~ Kenneth Logan

We’re here to execute a murderer,” Zil said, pointing at Hunter. “We are bringing justice in the name of all normals.”“There’s no justice without a trial,” Astrid said.Zil grinned. He spread his hands. “We had a trial, Astrid. And this chud scum was found guilty of murdering a normal.“The penalty,” he added, “is death.”Astrid turned to face the mob. “If you do this, you’ll never forgive yourselves.”“We’re hungry,” a voice cried, and was immediately echoed by others.“You’re going to murder a boy in a church?” Astrid demanded, pointing toward the church. “A church? In God’s house?”Zil could see that those words had an effect. There were some nervous looks.“You will never wash the stain of this off your hands,” Astrid cried. “If you do this, you will never be able to forget it. What do you think your parents would say?”“There are no parents in the FAYZ. No God, either,” Zil said. “There’s just humans trying to stay alive, and freaks taking everything for themselves.

~ Michael Grant

Because you don't get to choose your parents, K, and at some point you realise that maybe your parents just aren't able to parent very well, but we exist, and the only choice we've got in the whole situation is whether we're gonna love them anyway. It's as simple and messy and complicated as that

~ Megan Jacobson

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.

~ Deb Caletti

…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt her just as much as they hurt him and that except for the fact that she was older, there was no difference between them.

~ Paul Auster

Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a genius. But you do not and you are not. You're a hole where knowledge goes to sleep.

~ Weike Wang