Absentee Parent Quotes & Sayings

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The final word is love. — Dorothy Day

[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff. — Roxanne Roberts

You don't get married for yourself, you get married because you're better together than separate. — Dirk Hayhurst

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing. — Eminem

There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present. — Sonia Sotomayor

Every human being was a victim of something, whether it was desire, addiction, ignorance, or faith. — Lee Thomas

Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition. — Jani Allan

A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge. This transition between doing what you're told and telling yourself what to do generally occurs midway through a dissertation. In many ways, it is the most difficult and terrifying thing that a student can do, and being unable or unwilling to do it is much of what weeds people out of Ph.D. programs. — Hope Jahren

Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children. — Warren Farrell

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know. — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school. — Bojana Novakovic

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that. — Hugo Weaving

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game. — LeCrae