Overbearing Parent Quotes & Sayings

Art is only art if it is synonymous with living — Alexander Girard

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a love in darkness wrought obedient to the unseen sun, longer than memory, a thought deeper than the graves of time. The turning spindles of the cells weave a slow forest over space, the dance of love, creation, out of time moves not a leaf, and out of summer, not a shade. — Kathleen Raine

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become ... Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know. — Janette Rallison

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves. — Brooke Shields

The music broke her apart and put her back together, only to rend her asunder again and again. — Sarah J. Maas

Y.T. is maxing at a Mom's Truck Stop on 405, waiting for her ride. Not that she would ever be caught dead at a Mom's Truck Stop. If, like, a semi ran her over with all eighteen of its wheels in front of a Mom's Truck Stop, she would drag herself down the shoulder of the highway using her eyelid muscles until she reached a Snooze 'n' Cruise full of horny derelicts rather than go into a Mom's Truck Stop. — Neal Stephenson

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. — Raymond Chandler

Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start. — Jason Collins

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic. — Ashley Judd

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. — Sally Ride

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one. — Twyla Tharp

I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12. — Muhammad Ali

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
So have all sages said, all poets sung. — Jean Ingelow