A Quotes
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“All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.”
“All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.”
“All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my jobs, and not everybody has that choice. But I definitely, it's a family decision every time I take a job.”
“All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.”
“ALL PARENTS DAMAGE their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“All parents experience the same problems.”
“All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.”
“All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.”
“All parents want to send their children to the best possible schools. But because a good school is a relative concept, a family cannot achieve its goal unless it outbids similar families for a house in a neighborhood served by such a school. Failure to do so often means having to send your kids to a school with metal detectors at the front entrance and students who score in the 20th percentile in reading and math. Most families will do everything possible to avoid having to send their kids to a school like that. But because of the logic of musical chairs, they're inevitably frustrated.”
“All parents were once babies and children themselves, so try to remember this when observing parents from afar. Adults are just children who have grown up—they’re toddlers with longer legs.”
Source: The Angel's Guide to Taking Human Form
“All part of the service.”
Source: Imzadi
“All parties are good.”
“All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.”
“All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.”
“All partings foreshadow the great final one.”
Source: The best of Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations (All Unabridged)
“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.”
Source: In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
“All parts need to be honoured for their role in survival and re-framed as helpful before new coping strategies can be developed. The ability to internalise the relationship with the therapist as a caregiver is key to the individuals ability to provide for self-care and management.”
Source: Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
“All parts of his body, the circuit and flesh, required rest. Not that anything had gone wrong.”
Source: Blazing Night
“All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.”
Source: De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped
“All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”
“All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.”
“All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police”
“All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.”
Source: Adam Bede
“All passion is darkness. The true light is love.”
“All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.”
“All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
“All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.”
Source: The Enigma of Stonehenge
“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”
“All paths are seen, through the prism of fate”
Source: Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
“All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!”
“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.”
“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy - it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.”
“All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.”
“All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.”
Source: The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel
“All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness
“All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.”
“All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...”
“All paths lead to God, but only one path will present you before God without fault and with great joy. Pick a path, any path—it will take you to God. Trust me: you will stand before Him one day. You will meet your Maker. You will see the face of Christ. There are many ways up the mountain, but only one will result in life instead of destruction.”
“All paths lead to Heaven, follow your own path and leave the others in peace.”
“All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.”
“All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.”
“All paths must end, but not always in sorrow.”
Source: The Amulet of Nethelar: Book One of The God Amulets Trilogy
“All paths of love become one on the journey of dance.”
Source: The Book of Dance
“All paths will have destinations, but all destinations aren't worthwhile.”
“All patients reported a loss of craving for drugs while taking large doses of Vitamin C, during detoxification. Of the first 30 carefully monitored heroin addicts, 30 successfully withdrew from their addiction with no more than minor discomfort. None of the 30 were reported to have relapsed...Similar results have been reported by other doctors...:Archie Kalokerinos.”
“All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.”