409 Quotes About Parents-and-children

Later in life, it would occur to me that despite his actions, my father really did want what was best for his family. As to how he would accomplish that? He had no idea. Later in life, it would occur to me that this was the ultimate dichotomy: for a person to want what's best but draw from their worst. Dad did just that...His methods weren't just ineffective, they were insane. Such were the fates of good men once succumbed to the madness of the world.

I don't see any wrong in children revealing their parents' mistakes. Children talk about these wrongs not out of malice, but because of pain of mind.. replied Tissa.

Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make us and they destroy us. They warp the world and remake it in their own shape, and that's the world we know forever after. It's the only world. We can't see what it might have looked like otherwise.

I like it... I made it so I have to like it. Which, by the way, is how parents should feel.

Parents are the great well wishers of their child, no one else more than them.

My thoughts always go back to the parents – here's their kid who wouldn't be coming back. I got this feeling all the way through. It didn't matter if I saw a dead American or German, I always figured he belonged to somebody. You knew somebody was going to miss him.- Forrest Guth

It isn't really much of a mystery, this occasional need I have to comfort my father. I did something terrible to his son once.

So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and expect the occasional nicety to count for much. Those bonds break away much more quickly and permanently than most people would like to believe.

The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.