Unaffectionate Parents Quotes & Sayings

We live by faith. Our fate is in the hands of the faithful God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition. — Derek A. Cuthbert

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround. — Nick Turse

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late. — Lev Grossman

My stomach rumbled. Like certain other portions of my anatomy, it had a tendency to become easily sidetracked, and to hell with little details like survival. — Jim Butcher

Enough of little lives led by little people, crumpling under the weight of stress. And enough of empty ambition masquerading as something grand yet marked by the numbing effects of a vacant heart. — Louie Giglio

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation. — Demetri Martin

Everywhere Gage looked, his fingers itched to touch and his brain raced to keep up. A snake coiled beneath his right pec, an eagle took flight over his left. Stars, numbers, and Celtic symbols fought for real estate. Gage would need weeks to explore the storied terrain of Brady's body.
Better put in for some vacation time now. — Kate Meader

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited. — Andre Leon Talley

Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else. — David Almond

We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel. — Samuel Marsden

Iran said it will give up trying to make a nuclear weapon. But it got awkward when Iran said, 'But just for Lent. We'll start again on Monday.' — Jimmy Fallon

I was talking about children that have not been properly house-trained. Left to their own impulses and indulged by doting or careless parents almost all children are yahoos. Loud, selfish, cruel, unaffectionate, jealous, perpetually striving for attention, empty-headed, for ever prating or if words fail them simply bawling, their voices grown huge from daily practice: the very worst company in the world. But what I dislike even more than the natural child is the affected child, the hulking oaf of seven or eight that skips heavily about with her hands dangling in front of her
a little squirrel or bunny-rabbit
and prattling away in a baby's voice. — Patrick O'Brian

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions. — Mark Bradford