Parenting Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri Download Open image ““He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.”” — Jhumpa Lahiri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parenting Time
“I saw in her more potential, more character, than her mother allowed.” — Amy Goldwasser Copy Share Image
“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than… — Caroline Moorehead Copy Share Image
“The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.” — Brooke Hauser Copy Share Image
“He wouldn’t say anything, but he would suspect me or his mother nonetheless—a fissure that with the passing of time would expand into a… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
“...he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
“He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“But I'm reminded that of time and time again that mother nature loves a paradox.” — Dean Vincent Carter Copy Share Image
“But, as her mother had often told her, life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.” — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
“She watched him recede into the past as he stood...each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“And he saw now that it wasn't real. That it had never been real. He could feel that other life shrinking and losing its… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Assured by his grades and his apparent indifference to girls, his parents don't suspect Gogol of being, in his own fumbling way, an American… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of respect in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Ashoke suspects that Mrs. Jones (the secretary at his new job as a professor) ...is about his own mother's age. Mrs. Jones leads a… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights expired. She… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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… — Dan Simmons Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share 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… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
