1,263 Quotes About Parents

The girls weren't alone in this: the world is full of children picking up their parents' crumbs.

И ми се иска да кажа на всички, които имат още майки и бащи, обичайте ги, докато са живи, и непременно им го кажете. Непременно! Защото утре може да е вече късно и думите за благодарност и за обич, които не сте им казали, ще заседнат, тежки и горчиви, във вашите гърди и няма да има земна сила да ги махне!- Докато са живи

Was Grandfather trying to tell me something significant in a language I could not interpret? I wanted to establish a sure relationship with him despite his thunder. Grandfather was a man with whom one could be intimate, if he permitted, without ever enjoying an intimate moment. His devotion to me was direct, captivating. He did not want to talk about it, or even show it in any normal manner.

The miracle of grace is that you can give what you have never gotten. You do not get your capacity for love from your parents. They are not your source. Your source is God. You are your own source. Your river is strong.

My parents had lived in California, long ago, when they were twenty and twenty-two, also newly married. This distant knowledge romanced me like a whiff of honey, the sweet and mythic prehistory of my existence.

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Maybe that's what happens, you go places and do things that are beyond your parents' capacity to imagine or understand, and that's how you start thinking of them as quaint and peripheral.

They were really nauseating at times, the way they were still so in love with each other.

They had argued a lot, but then suddenly they stopped fighting and began speaking calmly to each other, like they were strangers. That’s when I knew something was really wrong.Mo eventually explained that she and my father were simply different peas meant to live in separate pods. You would think two adults could figure that out before they got married and had kids.