Parental Expectation Quotes & Sayings

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. — Menander

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love is always stronger than death, and unto that love you have now returned. — Richard Rohr

For desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition. — Aristotle.

You unbelievably lucky chit!" Alex spoke. "You have parental permission - nay, parental expectation! - to avoid all versions of limp-necked, pasty white, simpering dandies who might come calling for your hand in marriage. Are you sure your father wouldn't like to assume charge of me as well?" "I'm not sure my father could handle you. — Sarah MacLean

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities? — Albert Claude

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked. — Franz Kafka

7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales — Alison Weir

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live. — David Levithan

May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah. — George Washington

I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life. — Steven Adler