409 Quotes About Parents-and-children

Maybe better that way, to not know our parents, to love them as we move away from them--they're on the shore and we're on a ship, moving away; later we will switch places as they sail away from us, and we say to them, a little longer.

I think about all the people I need to forgive.My mother for not saying she loves me? We're too often guilty of thinking that our parents arrived on this planet as fully functioning adults on the day that we were born. That they don't have pasts of their own prior to our birth. That the father is not also a son, that the mother is not also a child. My mother had a tough beginning, enduring things I know little about. And yet I more often discount her pain and overvalue mine.

Teaching children is great, but allowing them to teach you is so refreshing

As guardians of their own, parents are naturally armed with defensive and offensive instincts to disarm any harm coming towards their young.

Times goes so fast and never returned but memories stay with us. Parents spend as much time with your children as you can, remember times spent with them is priceless and are the best moments for both of you

Ο πατέρας του του μιλούσε -έτσι αισθανόταν ο Σιεριόζα- μ' ένα ύφος σάμπως ν' αποτεινόταν σε κάποιο φανταστικό παιδί, σ' ένα από κείνα τα παιδιά που βρίσκουμε στα βιβλία, μα που δεν είχε καμία απολύτως ομοιότητα με τον Σιεριόζα. Κι ο μικρός όταν βρισκόταν με τον πατέρα του, προσπαθούσε να προσποιείται πως ήταν ένα τέτοιο παιδί των βιβλίων.

Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves.

Such behaviours weren’t the reasons parents abused children but the results of abuse.

Just how many ways it's possible to fuck up a child so badly that ten, twenty, forty years later they're still trying to make sense of it.