Parenting Quote by Sherman Alexie

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is doomed.”

— Czelslaw Milosz

“My father was a stand–up man who, unfortunately, did not have anything to stand up for. An eternal conflict burned in his heart, a…

— Henry Martin

“They did not set out to disappoint their father, not on purpose, but neither did they wish to shoulder the lumpy, enervating burden of…

— Margaret Atwood

“Even the most skillful deceit is wasted on a man's mother.”

— John Whitbourn

“Have a father who lived up to his own promise and then found thing after thing to meet and surpass the expectations of his…

— David Foster Wallace

“Mom and Dad drank a lot more, and their arguments became more frequent and more abusive. Dad was very non-physical during these arguments and…

— Sandi Gamble

“A young man fools himself into believing he no longer needs to be held in his mother's arms or to hear the gruff approval…

— Anonymous

“My father, whom I implicitly believed, represented adult life as one of incessant drudgery under the continual threat of financial ruin.”

— C.S. Lewis

“To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy’s father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he felt at…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in…

— Jimmy Carter

“Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal…

— A. H. Septimius

“No, happily that unjust prejudice is forgotten which made the son responsible for the father's actions. Review your life, Albert ...”

— Alexandre Dumas pere