As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was th — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Download Customize

As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.

— Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
childhood maturity parenting

More “Childhood” Quotes

They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She heard them stamping — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents. — Camilla Way, The Dead of Summer
I've come to think that there's an age beyond which it is impossible to lift a child from the pervading marinade of an o — Helen Oyeyemi, The Opposite House
Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood. — Stephen King, The Waste Lands
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. — John Gardner, Grendel
Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character. — Deb Caletti, The Story of Us
To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children. — Perry Nodelman
When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, — Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Phoebe realized how very wrong she’d been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the plac — Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash — Eva Hart