Parenting Quotes by Stephen King

Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

— Stephen King

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

— Stephen King

“With no gods to pray to, Susan prayed to her father.”

— Stephen King

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

— Stephen King

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

— Stephen King

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”

— Stephen King

“Sometimes parents needed to be protected.”

— Stephen King

“But my father needed a job so he could finish a play he was working on . . .”

— Stephen King

...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness...

— Stephen King

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking…

— Stephen King

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

“What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be”

— Stephen King

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

— Stephen King

“A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.”

— Stephen King

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

“What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through…

— Stephen King

“To this point in his life, Jake had been aware of only three feelings about his father: puzzlement, fear, and a species…

— Stephen King

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

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

“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

Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into…

— Stephen King

“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

“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

“Other than when I got the news about Mom, I can only remember one other time when I cried as an adult,…

— Stephen King

“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

I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things…

— Stephen King

“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

Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're…

— Stephen King

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man…

— Stephen King

“The father of sin was theft; every one of the Ten Commandments boiled down to “Thou shalt not steal.” Murder was the…

— Stephen King

“And, you know, I hope you have some fun with this book. Nosh and nibble at the corners or read the mother…

— Stephen King

“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

“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

“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who…

— Stephen King

“The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness…

— Stephen King

“No Fuimus, non Sumus, atque nonquam obliti erimus." "I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has…

— Stephen King

“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

“I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.”

— Stephen King

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have…

— Stephen King

“Once Tim asked his father what civilized meant. “Taxes,” Big Ross said, and laughed—”

— Stephen King