It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all.
Katherine MinTags: life beauty parents perspective vision world
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
Chuck PalahniukChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar WildeTo lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar WildeTags: humor paraphrased parents children
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.
John SteinbeckTags: growing-up parents coming-of-age fall-of-the-gods
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Alice MunroMy parents are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh...
Tags: humor parents childhood paranoia
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill CosbyTags: parents
Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.
Christopher MooreTags: parents
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
Lemony SnicketTags: humor love parents change babies
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