409 Quotes About Parents-and-children

When I say to a parent, 'read to a child,' I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

There's nothing worse than the day you find out that your parents are nasty, horny mortals like everyone else. It just kills your childhood.

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

There’s nothing more complicated – or fragile – than the relationship between parents and their children. It’s like no other relationship there is. And no one tells you how to make it work. Either you find your way or you don’t.

Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one

Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious mistakes. Don't make them out to be perfect. That’s too thin a wire for anyone to be able to keep their balance.

Isn’t that an odd thing for a parent to wish for a child? That he would be less than what he is?