Parenting Quotes by Nick Hornby

12 Parenting quotes by Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby’s twelve parenting snippets deliver his trademark humor and honesty, offering a quick, relatable look at the everyday realities of raising kids. It’s a light‑hearted stop for anyone needing a chuckle and a nod of recognition.

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That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

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“It's easier to have parents if you've got a girlfriend.”

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“His father fell off a window-ledge. No wonder his mum had cheered up.”

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It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.

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“She’d always suspected that she was the sort of girl who wouldn’t go home to see a sick father if she had…

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He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals.…

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I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that…

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“It had never occurred to Sophie that she would be forgiven so readily for her trespasses and she wasn’t sure that she…

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When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had…

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“It was then, for the first time, that Will saw the kind of help Marcus needed. Fiona had given him the idea…

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“(to father) Aren't you glad that you've never had to buy vegeterian cookery books as the first small step on the road…

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“We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet…

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…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

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“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.”

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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

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I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which…

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I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

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“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day…

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“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just…

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“I'm OK. Really. I can find people. I'll be all right.”

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“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty…

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“Defansçılar her zaman forvetçilerden daha iyi analizcilerdir.”

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On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans…

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It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything…

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