Quotes on “parents”

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.

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

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.