Broken dreams Quote by Fahad Basheer

“There could be no eldest son for her, and younger sons were indelicate things, necessary, but not to be much spoken of. Younger sons…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t remember before…

— Craig Stone

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”

— Anonymous

“very few parents, in any age, are able to feel relaxed about the upbringing of an eldest child.”

— Andrew Cook

“Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of…

— Philip Roth

“Death of parents leaves minor children at the mercy of the merciless or merciful.”

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one's parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing…

— Peter Taylor

“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of…

— William Stolzenburg

“But fathers always thought their youngest daughters were rather special”

— Rona Jaffe

“When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are.”

— Nelson DeMille

“A foolish son has no advantage over a wise orphan.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo