Parentijg Quotes & Sayings

When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems. — Adele Faber

Your mind may not know what to do today, but your heart does. Follow your heart. — Joe Vitale

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough. — Libba Bray

She looks like hell in a
party dress, her jewelry mangled and
teeth on edge. — Victoria Aveyard

Not with any hope of defeating solitude in that way, but, quite the contrary, in order to nurture it — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Although, I admit, I desire,
Occasionally, some backtalk
From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain:
A certain minor light may still
Lean incandescent
Out of kitchen table or chair
As if a celestial burning took
Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then
— Sylvia Plath

Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations. — Tim Harford

His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of sorrow and all the varieties of rage. Eventually, you would have to go to church to get rid of him. — Charles Baxter

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality. — Val Kilmer

For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy. — Mo Ibrahim

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling. — Michelle Shocked