Parents Quotes
I love you but I got to love me more.
Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.
...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)
We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.
I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.
Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.
I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.
Oh, Daja, " moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom."Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.
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.
I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.”I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.
Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes...
Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.
If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.
She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies.”“Sometimes I think that’s all we owe our parents.
I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture, no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.
A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole.""In the Shape of Shep
His parents’ pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war
If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.
The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do.
Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.
I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.
The saddest realization I’ve had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment.
Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.
He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.
Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.
Mrs. Bird smiled at me as I arrived at her side. "They can surprise us, can't they, our parents? The things they got up to before we were born.""Yes, " I said. "Almost like they were real people once.
They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.
The next my parents and Brianna come rollin' up in here, I'm gonna scream, "Hey! Why don't y'all just MOVE IN?!
It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.
My Christmas was a sum total of the ministrations of adults, usually adults who wanted me to encourage my parents to buy something for me to consume and discard.
I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch
My nerves came back in full force. I'd thrown myself in the deep end, and, feeling like I had no idea how to swim, I had to get back to shore somehow. "I'm sorry, " I whispered.
Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?
Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.
I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.
Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.
Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job. The world was so full of sharp bends that if they didn't put a few twists in you, you wouldn't stand a chance of fitting in.
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.
That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome.
Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.
I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once.