Best His Parents Quotations
125 His Parents quotes by 107 unique authors
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Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become immortal and subsist…
— Richelle Mead
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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
— Mark Twain
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The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another…
— Pseudonymous Bosch
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I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of…
— Alice Miller
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I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to…
— John Green
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His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been…
— Terry Pratchett
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He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.
— John Knowles
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Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling…
— Alice Miller
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He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days. It had something…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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His parents never talked about how they met, but when Park was younger, he used to try to imagine it. He loved how much they…
— Rainbow Rowell
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A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in…
— Henry Clay Trumbull
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A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does
— Lewis Blaine Hershey
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The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I…
— Bear Bryant
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his…
— Saint Ambrose
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My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children…
— Marjane Satrapi
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In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen,…
— Bill Dedman
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
— Raj Kapoor
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Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.
— Raj Kapoor
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Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered…
— Tracy Pollan
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And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them…
— Bible
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You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and…
— William D Tammeus
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He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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