Quotes of: Parental Keyword

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Horseradish

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness...

Joyland

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...

The Sense of an Ending

. . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.

Stone Guardian

If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.

The Mother at Home

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

My Sister's Keeper

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

Little Failure

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

London Fields

This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.

Last Flight Out

Our children make us so vulnerable. Our parents too, I suppose.

The Secret Mandarin

It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born.

Shark Net

When you keep a secret from your parents, you're not trying to protect yourself. It's because you're trying to protect them.

Sophie Says

I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have but the past to parent us?

Seed Across Snow

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.

Twenties Girl

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.

By Private Invitation

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

Pride and Prejudice

Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.

Paper Towns

Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.

This Book is Not FOR SALE