Quotes about pare
parent want folks
Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules. Chuck Palahniuk
parenting opiates parenthood
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
parent choices firsts
Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing. Angelina Jolie
parent legacy culture
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion. Amos Oz
parent scales western
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
parent matter bigs
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens. Ally Condie
parent single-parent prepared
I was not prepared to live as a single parent. Annette Funicello
parent being-a-parent
Being a parent is amazing. Angela Kinsey
parent littles rebel
When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel. Amy Grant
parent asian honest
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting. Amy Chua
parent size fit
Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.
parent knows
I don't know what I'm doing as a parent at all. Anna Faris
parent embarrassing difficult
My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about Anita Hill
parent approval realizing
I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature. Andrew Stanton
parenthood stranger catapults
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, Andrew Solomon
parent age driven
I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging. Claire Danes
parent elements combination
The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents. D. H. Lawrence
parent different nebraska
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents. Dan Chaon
parent doubt adults
I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten. David Foster Wallace
parent honest poor
I was born to poor because of honest parents. Ambrose Bierce
parent taught culture
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. Alice Walker
parenthood mothering hardest
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest. Ann Voskamp
parent might saws
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. Albert J. Nock
parent acting important
Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that. Alexander Gould
parent lucky my-sister
I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life. Clemence Poesy
parent rooms boat
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. Anna Quindlen
parent anxiety soul
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. Angela Carter
parent black knows
You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore. Amy Schumer
parent healthy firsts
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer. Anthony Bourdain
parent over-you allowance
My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance. Amy Childs
parent pay way
Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money. Anjelica Huston
parent sacred maintaining
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status. Andrew Vachss
parent trying worst
The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you. Rick Nielsen