1,263 Quotes About Parents

I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.

A criminal always returns home.

They knew what had happened at school and what was happening now, but they dismissed it in that self-serving way parents often had of pretending anything they can't solve isn't really a problem.

Parents: so essential, yet sometimes likesomething you've stepped in and cannot get off your shoe. What else is there but to love them?

What kind of world did our fathers abandon us to?

Whatever you do in this lifetime, strive to make your parents happy and proud

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

I wanted to know what our family's stories were. I wanted to know the things Mom wouldn't think to tell me. Things she knew but never said out loud, because they were a part of her. I wanted to know what made the Bahrami family special.