Quotes of: Parental Keyword

Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow us to make our own.

A Song for Julia

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.

Single Dad Laughing

No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.

Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart

Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.

Moranthology

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slits somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

Magic Slays

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Northanger Abbey

Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.

New World: Rising

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

North and South

The circus is the perfect business right now because parents want their kids to be kids and not Charley Bucket drinking cabbage soup all day.

The Nobody Show

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

The Six Rules of Maybe

I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined

Secrets of a Summer Night

Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent’s past, there’s leftover booze and contraceptives.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children; unhappy homes the noise of their parents

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become.

Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?

Out of Oz

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.

One True Thing

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.

The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

The Pursuit of Happiness

Encourage obeying "all the way, right away, and in a happy way.

Parenting With Scripture: A Topical Guide for Teachable Moments

One of the fastest ways to dispel greed is for a person to realize how blessed he already is.

Parenting With Scripture: A Topical Guide for Teachable Moments