Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.
Anne LamottTags: insanity parents tragedy alzheimer-s
Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,
Woody AllenThe job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.
Justine LarbalestierTags: parents children human-nature intergenerational-relations
Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.
Peggy O'MaraTags: parents children child babies parenting instinct mothering normal biological
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
Sean CoveyTags: parents children funny admitting-faults
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
Roald DahlWhen you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.
Jude WatsonAvoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
Rainer Maria RilkeTags: love parents children child unconditional-love parent
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.
Charles TaylorTags: life parents self conversation dialogue self-identity
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
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