I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But my father needed a job so he could finish a play he was working on . . .” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Pam's father had been diagnosed with rectal cancer. It didn't surprise me. Put a bunch of white assholes together and you're going… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Once Tim asked his father what civilized meant. “Taxes,” Big Ross said, and laughed—” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Clay said, "If they have flashlights like us, we can almost assume-" "We can't assume anything," [Alice] said restlessly, querulously. "My father… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Other than when I got the news about Mom, I can only remember one other time when I cried as an adult,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The good-natured back-and-forth they had always had, the ease of their collaborations on projects and meals and parenting responsibilities, the comfortable pleasure… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There’s three things ye can do in any situation, girl,” her father had told her once. “Ye can decide to do a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The father of sin was theft; every one of the Ten Commandments boiled down to “Thou shalt not steal.” Murder was the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And, you know, I hope you have some fun with this book. Nosh and nibble at the corners or read the mother… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A time will come when it won’t pass.’ The gunslinger made no reply, for he knew this was true. The trap had… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I wish to fuck I was your father!” he said angrily. “You wouldn’t go around talking about takin those stupid shop courses… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You think Mother sent us out here to have visions?' Ralph asked. 'Maybe to gain strength and holiness by a purging process',Glen… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Myrna was part of a ballet troupe and Jack had seen her and the other dancers perform—his mother often made him go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No Fuimus, non Sumus, atque nonquam obliti erimus." "I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness... — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share
“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.… — Stephen King Copy Share
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share
“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.… — Stephen King Copy Share
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened… — Stephen King Copy Share
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and… — Stephen King Copy Share
“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to… — Stephen King Copy Share
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.” — Stephen King Copy Share
![“Clay said, "If they have flashlights like us, we can almost assume-" "We can't assume anything," [Alice] said restlessly, querulously. "My father says assume makes an ass out of you and me. Get it, u and-" "I get it," Clay said.” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/424/stephen-king-13_parenting_clay-said-if-they-have-flashlights-like_2063569.jpg)
