Parents Quotes

Meanwhile they take me to New Jersey, bound and gagged, and my parents finally realize that I’m kidnapped. They snap into action immediately: they rent out my room.

Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.

My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio.

They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to.

When I was born, the doctor came into the waiting room and said to my father, “I’m sorry. We did everything we could, but he pulled through.”

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot – but I always found them.

We will never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

I remember the time that I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.