Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.
When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.
My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you. ” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.
There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.
If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.
Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet
I have a great support team. I have very understanding parents that do not put too much pressure on me, and I have close friends that I lean on for support.
It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought me Steve Martin records and let me watch R-rated comedies long before they probably should have.
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.
I think a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.