Skip to content

Parenting Quote by Hugh Howey

Download Open image

““Here one moment, in the great beyond the next. An eyeblink, and a boy becomes his father.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Parenting Time

More by Hugh Howey

“the mind-numbing routine. It was the castration of thought,”

Image

“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,”

Image

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

Image

“The Loud came before the quiet. That was a Rule of the World, for the bangs and shouts need somewhere to echo, just as…

Image

“People from IT sent to replace those they’d killed. Juliette’s”

Image

“a heap of words designed to hinder communication rather than facilitate it.”

Image

“That leaves Bravo Company, the expendables who know what they’re doing.”

Image

“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”

Image

“Overhead, tangles of wires knotted together in a grand display of unplanned infrastructure.”

Image

“Montana wants to scream, but the thing she is angry at is in the past. The past can’t hear her. This is the thing,…

Image

“I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful.” “Why be careful?” Marnes asked. Marck gazed…

Image

One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

Image

Explore all 351 Hugh Howey quotes

More Parenting quotes

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw…

Elizabeth Taylor

Image

Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I…

Image

“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of…

Patricia C. Wrede

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…

Image

“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of…

Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974

Image

Let children support their parents or be imprisoned.

Image

“As members of the Church, there are things you cannot do. For one, you cannot take a Las Vegas-style vacation. I do not know…

William Grant Bangerter

Image

“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of…

Image

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Image

My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives…

Image

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used…

Image

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Image

Browse all 55,666 Parenting quotes