Parenting Quote by André Aciman Download Open image ““My father laughed it off, saying I was too old not to accept people as they were.”” — André Aciman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parenting
“I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I hated those moments when you realized your parents were getting older.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why it was, exactly, but nothing irritated my father quite like the sound of his children’s happiness. Group crying, he could… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think.” — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
“I laughed, “I’m still the same plain old Will – just like I’ve always been.” He shook his head, his face serious, “There’s nothing… — Heather Mar-Gerrison Copy Share Image
“That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.” — J.X. Burros Copy Share Image
“And then I started laughing. Horrible, really. But I was laughing. Because of all the things they could say about me, equal parts horrible… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
“But none of them laughed as hard about my beautiful brain as I knew my father would have. I miss him, the drunk bastard.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and given him… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“I desperately wanted to give him something. By contrast, taking seemed so bland, so facile, so mechanical.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I wanted him… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more in life… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“He loved the sticky taste. What had I done? I told him and pointed to the bruised evidence sitting on my desk. “Let me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“When had they separated us, you and me, Oliver? And why did I know it, and why didn't you?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“As we were swimming back, he asked as though it were an afterthought, “Are you going to hold last night against me?” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“To be with you. To be with you, Oliver. With or without my bathing suit. To be with you on my bed. In your… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
“As members of the Church, there are things you cannot do. For one, you cannot take a Las Vegas-style vacation. I do not know… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
