Parenting Quotes by Sherman Alexie

My father is an amazing man.

— Sherman Alexie

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

— Sherman Alexie

“My parents sold blood for money to buy food. Poverty was our spirit animal.”

— Sherman Alexie

“I think you forget things on purpose,” my mother’s ghost said.”

— Sherman Alexie

“He said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years.”

— Sherman Alexie

“the earth is our grandmother and that technology has become our mother and that they both hate each other.”

— Sherman Alexie

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

— Sherman Alexie

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

— Sherman Alexie

“I mean, why are you trying so hard to impress me? I'm really sorry your mother died, but it doesn't mean much…

— Sherman Alexie

“And finally this, when the sun was falling down so beautiful we didn’t have time to give it a name, she held…

— Sherman Alexie

“I prayed to Our Father and I called my father. And one father remained silent and the other quickly came to get…

— Sherman Alexie

“So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents,…

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“So I guess you were hopelessly romantic and easily distracted, a B-plus mother, certainly good enough to get into Matriarchal State University…

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When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only…

— Sherman Alexie

“If you want to make a white man cry, despite the amount of time it’s been since he last wept aloud, then…

— Sherman Alexie

“But none of them laughed as hard about my beautiful brain as I knew my father would have. I miss him, the…

— Sherman Alexie

Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged,…

— Sherman Alexie

“My mother once made a quilt from dozens of pairs of second- and third- and fourth- hand blue jeans that she bought…

— Sherman Alexie

“yet, I have spent my literary career writing loving odes to my drunken and unreliable father. I have, in a spectacular show…

— Sherman Alexie

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long,…

— Sherman Alexie

“I realized that my mother had not taught us the tribal language because she knew her children would not be strong enough…

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“It really made me wish I was Roman or Greek, you know? A classical Greek god would have killed his lying, cheating…

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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that,…

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“Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this…

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“And now I need To do something Excessively Indian So I will name All of the pine trees On the reservation. That…

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“Utensil While feasting On venison stew After we buried my mother, I recognized my spoon And realized my family Had been using…

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“Self-Exam Dear audience, please stand if you were raised By a terrible mother. Okay, okay, Approximately half of you. So I'd say…

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“In other nightmares, in his everyday reality, Victor watched his father take a drink of vodka on a completely empty stomach. Victor…

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“I dial home. My mother answers. “Hey, Ma,” I say, “Can I talk to Poppa?” She gasps, And then I remember that…

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“Did she say anything before she died?" he asked. "Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive him'" "Forgive him?" my father asked.…

— Sherman Alexie

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

— Sherman Alexie

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth.…

— Sherman Alexie

My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents…

— Sherman Alexie

She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my…

— Sherman Alexie

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to…

— Sherman Alexie

My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes…

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“Sibling Rivalry Yes, my mother was a better mother To my sisters and brothers, But they were better children Than me, the…

— Sherman Alexie

“My mother and grandmother’s conversation doesn’t belong in the cloud.   That old song is too sacred for the Internet.   So,”

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If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the…

— Sherman Alexie

“Father Arnold finished the ceremony and asked if anybody had any final words for the dearly departed. "Final words?" Chess asked, "I…

— Sherman Alexie