Absorption Quote by Rita Mae Brown

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

— Douglas Coupland

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

— Faye Wattleton

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

— Ayelet Waldman

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but…

— Andrew Young

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Both my parents were determined that I not discount my own abilities, and they absolutely would not abide me throwing up my hands as…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to…

— Brian Aldiss

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“you will think your parents are shatterproof until one day you find out they aren't. - what it really means to lose your innocence”

— Amanda Lovelace

At some point, parents may become inured to a child's self-destruction, but I never did.

— David Sheff

“Your parent is not open to your thoughts, feelings, and ideas; does not relate to or care about your feelings; does not feel a…

— Nina W. Brown

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I…

— Eliot Sumner