Parenting Quote by Franz Kafka

“And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitability undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him.…

— James Baldwin

“His father had told him time and again never to underestimate the power of something that could kill you.”

— C.J. Hill

“Once inside, I stirred the banked coals of the brazier to sullen life. It did nothing to ease the chill that gripped my bones.…

— Lesley Livingston

“As he took possession of it, he was overcome by a sense of something like sacred awe. He carefully spread his horse blanket on…

— Patrick Süskind

“There he is then, the unfortunate brute, quite miserable because of me, for whom there is nothing to be done, and he so anxious…

— Samuel Beckett

“My father was a stand–up man who, unfortunately, did not have anything to stand up for. An eternal conflict burned in his heart, a…

— Henry Martin

“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Everything he did, as long as you stayed in the village, whether shouting obscenities at passing children or sleeping in the cemetery, all would…

— Nick Flynn

“Hold on a minute, I thought to myself, there is something really, really wrong here. That he would have me followed and allow me…

— Ron Miscavige

“My father sat ensconced in his chair like a fabled god. Tall, strong, immovable. But I saw through his illusion and despaired.”

— Jessica Dotta