1,263 Quotes About Parents

I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled her for ballet classes, and sent her to horse-riding camp five summers in a row. But look at her. She turned into Lester anyway. She kisses Luisa’s forehead. Luisa frowns, suspiciously, like a teenager. “What?

Children who were abandonedgrow up to love people who abandon them

I did not need an unstable relationship to teach me about the evils of broken promises. I had parents for that.

God is as real as your mom and dad are for you.

Racism is just one of several illnesses passed on to children by their parents.

Those who create children must raise them"RjS

... education is the second food a parent can give a child.