1,263 Quotes About Parents
- Author Jojo Moyes
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Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
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- Author Vernor Vinge
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Les enfants sont des créatures extraordinaires, quand ils ne sont pas simplement chiants.
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- Author Christopher Morley
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We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.
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- Author E.M. Forster
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For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.
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- Author Randy Susan Meyers
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In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.
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- Author John Updike
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Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
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- Author Noah Webster
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The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.
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- Author Rupi Kaur
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i want to give my dada lifetime of peacefor the lifetime he spenton the road to feed usi want him to knowwhat comfort feels likei want him to seehe’s done enough- a lifetime on the road
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- Author Jonathan Safran Foer
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I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
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