Parenting Quote by Fiona Davis

“There was a lot of joy to be had in the contemplation of a pint glass; in terms of plain reality of course, there…

— Robert Rankin

“As I look back on my own life, I recognize that some of the greatest gifts I received from my parents stemmed not from…

— Clayton M. Christensen

“I was the girl whose face fell when she saw a wrapped present in the shape of a box, perhaps a jigsaw puzzle. Worst…

— Linda Grant

“I liked it when my mother tried to teach me things, when she paid attention. So often when I was with her, she was…

— Janet Fitch

“in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inkling of this wish.…

— Gail Caldwell

“In some inexplicable way she’d been looking forward to it and all its attendant drama, because wasn’t there something nearly lovely—when you were young…

— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

“Sarah have been giving the credit to her mother and grandmother—to all of the incredible women she’d connected with at the yarn store?”

— Bella Andre

“If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

— Byron Katie

“madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone…

— Marcel Proust

“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she had set…

— Liza Dalby

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father,…

— Charles Dickens