Quotes & Sayings About Making My Parents Proud

Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them ... A life without conclusions is painful. — Soseki Natsume

Life's too short for chess. — Henry James Byron

Part of life was never getting a chance to say all that you should to someone before they are gone. — Robert J. Wiersema

Proper mourning leaves one nothing to do but mourn, and I've concluded this isn't a good thing. Grief crowds in closely enough without the rest of life being shoved aside to make way for it. — Grace Burrowes

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society. — Pamela Anderson

wanting her parents' approval, needing to think she was making them proud. Parents held a remarkable power over their children. It didn't matter how old those children grew, or how distant in their everyday lives. They received messages from their parents from the moment of birth. Those messages were nearly as deeply etched on the psyche as hair, eyes, and height in the genes. — Barbara Delinsky

The power of the delete key. — Buffy Andrews

I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over. — Leo Tolstoy

Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you. — Joel Osteen

Perhaps it's true that in our sex-saturated culture it does take a certain amount of self-discipline to resist having sex, but restraint does not equal morality. And let's be honest: if this were simply about resisting peer pressure and being strong, then the women who have sex because they actively want to - as appalling as that idea might be to those who advocate abstinence - wouldn't be scorned. Because the "strength" involved in these women's choice would be about doing what they want despite pressure to the contrary, not about resisting the sex act itself. — Jessica Valenti

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud. — Eric Dickerson

I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. — Ozzy Osbourne

There is very seldom any true secret. — Diana Wynne Jones