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Parenting Quotes by Neil Gaiman

49 Parenting quotes by Neil Gaiman

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A steaming breakfast on the stove shows a mother caring for her child while the kitchen hums with life. Gaiman’s quotes mix humor with deep thoughts, like a mother saying she won’t live forever and comparing famous faces to a funny “catch.” They also remind us that endings can feel like fresh starts.

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“You are almost never cool to your children.”

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As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

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“I don’t understand parents. Honestly, I don’t think anybody ever does.”

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All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work,…

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“Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on.”

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Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

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“But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother.”

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You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

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“EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. Shadow”

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“Don't be silly," said Coraline. "I'm going back for them because they are my parents. And if they noticed I was gone…

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It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She…

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“The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age…

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“You wouldn't have to wash," said Brian, whose parents forced him to wash a great deal more than he thought could possibly…

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“God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who…

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My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then…

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“And then they were at Tristran's old home, where his sister waited for him, and there was a steaming breakfast on the…

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“Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper with "MIST" written on…

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How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,…

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As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during…

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“The sailors do not mind the arrangement, for they know that this way there will, at the least, be one person who,…

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“Back in my day, we had it all set up. You lined up when you died, and you'd answer for your evil…

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I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a…

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“At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. 'Yum!' he'd say, and 'Charcoal! Good for you!' and 'Burnt…

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“Our deal's over," said Charlie. "I brought your feather. I want my brother. You took him. I want him back. Anansi's bloodline…

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“It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but then, back then, in…

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“Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are the currency that we share…

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“This book started like this. My son, who is called Michael or Mike these days, but was Mikey back then, was angry…

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“Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to Madame Tussauds waxworks in…

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“I think that there should have been some nice wumpires," said my sister, wistfully. "Nice, handsome, misunderstood wumpires." "There were not," said…

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“Your mother wouldn't describe a combination of Brad Pitt, Bill Gates, and Prince William as 'quite a catch.' There is nobody walking…

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EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.

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If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

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“Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.”

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“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what…

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“Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.”

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My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed…

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“It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its…

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“She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what…

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“Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on. You will…

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“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”

So many things to see, people to do.

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”

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You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

What do stars do? They shine.

“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”