Parent Quotes - QuotesSweet | quotesweet.com

Category: parent
Quotes of Category: parent

Michael Chabon _ Manhood for Amateurs
{My dad} didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.
book-quote mother parenting parent
Chuck Palahniuk _ Snuff
No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life."
book-quote children parents relationship
Chuck Palahniuk _ Snuff
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
book-quote children parents parent
Chuck Palahniuk _ Snuff
Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
book-quote mother father parent
Khaled Hosseini _ And the Mountains Echoed
She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.
book-quote parent
Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the
I have a little boy at home,A pretty little son;I think sometimes the world is mineIn him, my only one. . . 'Ere dawn my labor drives me forth;Tis night when I am free;A stranger am I to my child;And stranger my child to me. . . .
book-quote poem parent
Rebecca McNutt _ Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog
Mandy, I hardly think this was appropriate, not after… you know… after the funeral we haven't had the money for any of your weird little games and I was hoping you'd be more mature now that Jud's gone," her father had disappointedly added. "How much'd that cake cost you?" "It's paid for," Mandy had argued, but her voice had sounded tiny in the harbour wind. "I used the cash from my summer job at Frenchy's last year and I… it was my birthday, dad!" "You can't even be normal about this one thing, can you?" her father had complained. Mandy hadn't cried, she'd only stared back knowingly, her voice shaky. "…I'm normal.
book-quote grief money loss
Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care
Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
book-quote life parent witness
Jodi Picoult _ Vanishing Acts
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.
book-quote parent
Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper
I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.
book-quote parent
Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care
Other people look at me and think: But all I see when I look at you is that girl who had memorized all the words to Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by the time she was three, the girl who crawls into bed with me whenever there's a thunderstorm - not because you're afraid but because am, the girl whose laugh has always vibrated inside my own body like a tuning fork. I would never have wished for an able-bodied child, because that child would have been someone who wasn't you.
book-quote parent motherly-love
Jodi Picoult _ Vanishing Acts
I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.
book-quote hold parent picoult