Parenting Quote by Sharon Olds Download Open image ““I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it, then I lay down on my father's grave.”” — Sharon Olds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parenting
“I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to die. Where were my parents to take me in their arms, to reassure me?” — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“When you hold hands with the dead, eventually they pull you into the grave. ” — Steven Montano Copy Share Image
“There are men who seem to have seized the trunk of life, and he was one of them. It might not be for everyone,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“And then it finally did happen. I just lay there in shock. It hurt so bad, and I thought, “God, please, let me die.” As he put himself inside me, I wanted to scream for help, but there was no one to help me. I had nowhere to hide. My mother’s room, my little sister’s embrace, Uncle Fred, Uncle Warren,… — Lisa Pulitzer Copy Share
“I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“Forgive me,’ he whispered. I held my father’s gaze. Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering. I stood up and hugged him quietly. He held me tight and when he burst into tears the anger and the pain he’d buried in his soul all those years gushed out like blood. I knew… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“When I go, bury me with nothing but my own skin. I spent far too many days trying to outrun this thing called mine. So, if I set myself into your arms would you hold me like the earth, quietly? I am yours. Give me a field, give me a big sky. A mountain. Give me your mouth. I’m just… — Anis Mojgani Copy Share
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? How do they come to the come to the come to the… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.” — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think. — Sharon Olds 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 whether you all knew that. You cannot gamble, bet on the horses, or play with playing cards. You cannot be "loose," immoral, or violent. . . . Other such questions are solved by straight thinking. My… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share
“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 LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
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
