Quotes by Parent Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. Alice Miller umpires parent children I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival. Alice Miller childhood survival parent The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. Alice Miller parent character children The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us. Alice Miller essentials parent truth Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding. Alice Miller capable parent children You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. Alice Munro shame parent real She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief. Alice Sebold grief parent trying Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked. Alice von Hildebrand naked parent soul My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. Alice Walker taught parent culture I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy Alison Bechdel parent tragedy drama My parents are definitely reformed hippies. Alison Brie parent hippie If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby. Alison Gopnik sibling stars parent Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers. Alison Gopnik leaving parent mean My parents made us do everything, try everything. Alison Krauss parent made trying I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working. Alison Moyet single-parent parenthood parent For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt. Alix Kates Shulman unfinished-business guilt parent There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world. Allan Bloom parent views winning The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption. Allan Bloom parent compassion students It was terrifying when Aaron Sorkin announced that he was leaving West Wing, he and Tommy Schlamme. We felt like our parents were abandoning us. It was a tremendously sad day and I'm sure I will never understand exactly all the reasons why that happened. Allison Janney sad-day leaving parent I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics. Allison Silverman comedy parent numbers «1234567891011»