Child Quote by Lukasz Laniecki

“For generations, parents have shaped 'fine' but deeply restless human beings. We may know 'how to act' but we're losing sight of how to…

— Rebecca Eanes

“Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked…

— Virginia M. Axline

“We hate our parents for having their own lives, don’t we, for making decisions for themselves that don’t seem to take us into account.…

— Lisa Unger

“We start off in childhood believing parents might have access to a superior kind of knowledge and experience. They look, for a while, astonishingly…

— Alain de Botton

“The thing about not having parents is you don’t have anyone to tell you you’re heading down a path paved with grossly inaccurate expectations…

— David Wong

“And I can think of no more accurate description of how most of us parents feel far too much of the time. Far too…

— Hal Edward Runkel

“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?

— Jo Cox

“Parents have such formidable power. They can protect you from all the pain in the world. Or inflict the hardest pain of all. And…

— Linda Olsson

“People have all this resentment against their parents for fucking them up, but they never realize, the minute they have a kid, that they…

— Joshua Ferris

“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and…

— Donna Tartt

The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the…

— Alice Miller