1,263 Quotes About Parents

But it isn’t so much a matter of what you do as a parent; it’s who you are.

Every child was born free.

I’ve been trying to make you happy for six years now, hoping somehow that would make me happy too, but I don’t think it’s working. You’re not really happy with me because I’m not happy with you because I’m not happy with me.

We grow up expecting our parents to live forever until, one day, they’re suddenly gone.

I had to leave my parents to love them again. I had to move across the country to appreciate that I actually had any pull toward them - that I needed them. I had to get away from them in order to come back to them. I'd like to say they did the best they could, but that couldn't have been their best. I wasn't doing my best either, so the idea that everyone is always doing the best they can is a trope. Some people are just interested in surviving; doing their best doesn't even occur to them.

This was a very parentish thing to say; parents didn’t understand that teachers never listened to explanations.

All along, I remembered her wanting me to be the best, always the best, but somehow I forgot that she still loved me when I wasn’t.

Her life was her major disappointment, her mistakes carved into every premature line in her face, but I wasn’t going to let her use my life as her second chance.

You really don't understand what it's like to have bad parents, do you?