Parenting Quote by James Thurber

“Above us all rose my mother’s hand, dangling from the column shifter like some battle-tattered flag for independence, surrounded by the glass shards and…

— BJ Ward

“My mother—with all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youth—ended up giving me the drive and the fire I needed…

— Vernon Davis

“Come over here and light me a cigarette," she'd said. I'd snuck a little inhale, and my mother had smiled. But then she'd said,…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Have you ever been too busy driving to take time to get gas?”

— Stephen R. Covey

“For instance, we were always making mistakes with the unfamiliar products around us, and one time my mother squirted my perfume into her mouth,…

— Yeonmi Park

“My mother's perpetual now, tempting me with possibility. Weren't we silly, she might say? What was the matter with us? Let's be close again.…

— Susanna Sonnenberg

“My mother did not want to go to America: this much I knew. I knew it by the way she became distracted and impatient…

— Catherine Chung

“My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being…

— Polly Horvath

“Living’s hard,” Doris said. “I got three kids with different daddies. I’m fat, can’t stop smoking, and I’ve worked in this cave since God…

— Michael B. Jones

“I could just hear my mom now, "You know those old candy cigarettes are bad for you. Next thing you know, you'll be drinking…

— K. Martin Beckner

“It had seemed like such a good, such a romantic idea, to drive and not stop for gas.”

— Alex Flinn

“I was slightly thankful when Mom finally came out and unlocked the car. It was warm and toasty inside and it smelt like home.…

— Erica Sehyun Song