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Mitch Albom quotes about parents

American Writer May 23, 1958

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All parents damage their children. IT cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. The damage done by Eddie's father was, at the beginning, the damage of neglect... All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence. And now, someplace beoynd death, Eddie slumped against a stainless steel wall and dropped... Mitch Albom
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. Mitch Albom
I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't. Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom quote: "All parents damage their children. This was their life..."
All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence. Mitch Albom
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them—a mother’s approval, a father’s nod—are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. Mitch Albom
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard? Mitch Albom
But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone. Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom quote: "All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth,..."
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom quote: "All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped."
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Mitch Albom

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