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Parent Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.
- You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support…
- We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
- I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
- All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your…
- Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point…
- Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead,…
- and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the…
- Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next…
- I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you…
- There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent.…
- In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
- Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
- She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.
- Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were…
- I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new…
- We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
- If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent,…
- The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog…
- And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.
More Parent Quotes
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- 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
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
- When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the… — Jim Bishop
- 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
- Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is… — Russell Baker
- My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot
- To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. — Dave Barry