211 quotes found
“Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.”
“His parents’ pregnancies must have been all-out chromosomatic war”
“It’s funny… when you’re young you spend your life trying to convince yourself you’re not like your parents. And then, every now and then, you’ll do something a certain way, some mannerism, or you’l...”
“Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents?”
“Is there a magical age when children become parents to their parents?”
“My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.”
“Words of “unconditional love” defines as mothers love, respect your parents”
“Eventually, many years later, I came to see him the way everyone else saw him—a nice guy who, despite all the damage he did to us, wasn’t a bad man, not inherently bad, anyway. He just wasn’t very ...”
“I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way.”
“Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.”
“There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.”
