1,263 Quotes About Parents

It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

A child just wants to love her parents and to be loved, and it seems like it should be simple to do that, but sometimes it's not.

We owe some of our family members respect, but do not owe any of them love.

Kristo yubahirije inshingano ze z'ububyeyi yiyemeza gutanga ubuzima bwe kugIrango tubeho

She was our mother and belonged to us. She was never mentioned to anyone because we simply didn't have enough of her to share.

And in those moments when the two of them are playing dead, I quietly climb back upstairs because, as time passes and as I spot my parents doing young, lighthearted things, I'm overrun by some cruel and preoccupying sense that I'm watching the memory of them.

Some people’s deaths would not have pained us had we not known that to them we were related.

You know, some people act like every kid is entitled to two responsible, loving parents. I don't feel like that's a given. We're born alone, and we die alone. If you get an adult who's genuinely there for you, that's pretty lucky.

But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world.Instead I had Hell.