You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out. — Tony Parsons Families Copy Share Image
“What's your name?'Leon said, when waht he meant was - may I love you for ever? And she told him.” — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through. — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it. — Tony Parsons Instinct Copy Share Image
I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter. — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me. — Tony Parsons Dad Copy Share Image
The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening. — Tony Parsons Awakening Copy Share Image
My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to… — Tony Parsons Generation Copy Share Image
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that… — Tony Parsons Argument Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are… — Tony Parsons Happiness Copy Share Image
Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have… — Tony Parsons Coming home Copy Share Image
I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“... he was totally in thrall to the face of the girl in front of him. She stunned him. She paralysed him.… — Tony Parsons Paralysed Copy Share Image
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh… — Tony Parsons Care Copy Share Image
“Love is what's left when being in love has gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy,… — Tony Parsons Being in love Copy Share Image
And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“Rouz je bila na mojoj strani onako kako niko nikada nije bio na mojoj strani. Rouz je bila dobrovoljac. Bilo joj je… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them… — Tony Parsons Alone Copy Share Image
I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“Riddle me this - she is my daughter but I am not her father: who am I? I am a step parent.… — Tony Parsons Children Copy Share Image
I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“Then they lay there in silence for a while, listening to the rain, watching it come straight down, feeling it cool their… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
“Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last… — Tony Parsons Cancer Copy Share Image
“I have this theory about divorce. I have a theory that is never a tragedy for adults and always a tragedy for… — Tony Parsons Children Copy Share Image
“There was an intelligence about him (Joe Strummer) that allowed his band to change and evolve, just as Johnny Rotten and the… — Tony Parsons Johnny rotten Copy Share Image
The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement. — Tony Parsons Artist Copy Share Image
“Everything ends. It does. Sooner or later. This - all this - it has to end sometime.” — Tony Parsons Beginning Copy Share Image
