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Parent Quotes by Anne Lamott
- I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
- My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and…
- All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
- If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be…
- Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their…
- Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents…
- It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and…
- We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's…
- Write as if your parents are dead.
- I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
- ...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness…
- And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given…
- 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,…
- Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told…
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- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
- When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to… — Erykah Badu