Parental Quotes (page 45)

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• step parent
• parents
• little

I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage, and coddle, beginning with my children's father, who sat me down and told me in year two that I was going to create a little monster if I continuted to act as though "no" and "I don't love you" were synonomous. A. Whitney Brown

• love
• book
• laughter

From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings. Helen Hayes

• march
• parents
• people

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter. Anne Lamott

• moving
• parents
• daily

I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there. Taylor Swift

• parents
• wills
• parent

Yeah, parents will always fuck you up. Chuck Palahniuk

• parents
• wonder
• wonderful

Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on. Thomas Sowell

• parents
• church
• hi

Although my parents never attended church or mentioned Jesus except when they screamed at each other—and then they used his full name, 'Jesus Fucking Christ Augusten Burroughs

• parents
• children
• help

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Mitch Albom

• parents
• sea
• salt

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea. Pythagoras

• parents
• writing
• dead

Write as if your parents are dead. Anne Lamott

• mother father
• difficult
• believe

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own. Jeanette Winterson

• manly
• saying
• parents

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who. Richard Russo

• time
• parents
• book

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. Marcus Tullius Cicero

• book
• parents
• said

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits. J. K. Rowling

• parents
• children
• believe

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it. Jonathan Franzen