Doris Lessing Quotes
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
Doris Lessing
Quotes to Explore
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
P. L. Travers
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
Nancy Gibbs
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I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
Barbara Bush
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
Gary Numan
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
Tahj Mowry
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My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
Paloma Elsesser
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
Ian Harding
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
Abbie Cornish
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I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
Xavier Samuel
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My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.
Rachel Kushner
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
Edie Falco
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My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician because I didn't see myself doing or loving anything else as much.
Madi Diaz
