Best Our Parents Thoughts
270 Our Parents quotes by 230 unique authors
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Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.
— James Patterson
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Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we…
— Byron Katie
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Alec's trying to get Magnus to take him seriously, but he's never told our parents about Magnus, or even that he likes, you know -"…
— Cassandra Clare
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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged…
— John Green
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We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
— Brad Meltzer
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These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were…
— Edwidge Danticat
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I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations,…
— Anne Lamott
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Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations…
— Paulo Coelho
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Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children…
— Gregory Maguire
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They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry…
— Karen Marie Moning
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We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each…
— Tana French
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Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.
— Ashok K. Banker
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Only a teenage boy would agree to this: deceiving both our parents while repairing dangerous vehicles using money meant for my college education. He didn't…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
— Deb Caletti
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess…
— Steven Pressfield
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At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.
— William Landay
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Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why…
— Louise Rennison
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If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
— Kristin Cashore
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We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.
— Daniel Handler
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I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.
— Meg Cabot
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I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want…
— Daniel Handler
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I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling of 'Oh, I…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have…
— Mildred D. Taylor
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