Quotes about Parents

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Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of — Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them. — C.J. Milbrandt, On Your Marks: The Adventure Begins
Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free. — C.J. Milbrandt, On Your Marks: The Adventure Begins
Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home. — Amit Kalantri
Children of God, Children of the light. — Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Parents ought to pray for their children. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Never allow anyone to break your bond of love. — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that — Mitch Albom, For One More Day
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. — Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
She wants you to be a god," I told him."I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart li — Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aun — Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have been i — W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has — Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce th — T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in t — Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go? — Shannon L. Alder
At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mou — Salman Rushdie, East, West
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, — Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born. — Robert Drewe, The Shark Net
My emotional world imploded, and there is nothing that could have been said or done to make it easier. No one was in the — Sara Bareilles, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song