Parent Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image “You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parent Parenting Years
There's a lot of ways someone can grow up, but one way is discovering your parents are not all they say they are. — Charlie Plummer Copy Share Image
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
When I'm a teenager, my parents don't understand that they were teenager too :/ — Harshita Copy Share Image
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them. — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature. — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
Remember to love your parents...We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I am on my side, she crouches looking into my face. Soft, soft touches of her paw. I open my eyes, say I don't want to wake. I close my eyes. Cat gently pats my eyelids. Cat… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all the time she was thinking: I’m right off balance. I feel as if the atmosphere of this flat were being poisoned, as if a spirit of perverse and ugly spite were everywhere. Yet it’s nonsense. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot held an infant or a small child in whom the human template had been wrenched out of pattern, sometimes horribly, sometimes slightly. A baby like a comma, great lolling head on a stalk of a body...… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. — Doris Lessing Copy Share
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing 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
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
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share
I don't know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point - even making the choice not to do it… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share
My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us. — Himanshu Suri Copy Share Image
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image