A Quotes
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“A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both.”
Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
“A parent is the compass carefully laid on the map of a child who has yet to understand that the present is nothing more than the place where the future begins, not the place where the future lives.”
“A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.”
Source: The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You
“A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.”
“A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.”
“A Parent's insecurity is a Child's nightmare”
“A parent's words contain a power that can blast a child's fears and insecurities into oblivion.”
“A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.”
“A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.”
Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales
“A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A parent you know nothing about has a lot of imaginative potential.”
Source: Night Swimming
“A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.”
“A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.”
Source: The last lecture
“A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.”
“A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.”
“A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.”
“A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.”
“A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world.”
“A Parigi, la posizione di Julien nei riguardi della signora De Rênal sarebbe stata subito semplificata; ma a Parigi l'amore è figlio dei romanzi.”
Source: Il rosso e il nero: Ed. Integrale italiana
“A paris on trouve moyen de vous assassiner un homme en disant " il a bon cœur". Cette phrase veut dire " le pauvre garçon est bête comme un rhinocéros”
Source: Eugénie Grandet
“A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.”
Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays
“A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.”
“A parrot's gift is to talk; an eagle's gift is to fly. I'd rather be an eagle.”
“A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.”
Source: Curiosities of literature
“A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world.”
“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her prosocial sense, you are damaging it--and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.”
Source: The Sociopath Next Door
“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.”
“A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.”
“A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.”
Source: the zodiac arch
“A part of Astrid felt sorry for Sam. She knew he was still a long way from being over the beating he had taken from Drake. One look at him now, head hung, looking small and scared, was proof of that.
But he wasn’t the only one to be terrorized by Drake. Drake had come after her, early on. If she thought about it, she could still almost feel the sting of his slap on her face.
He’d made her…
He’d bullied her into calling Little Pete a retard. He’d terrorized her into betraying the person she loved most in the world.
She had managed to put it out of her mind. Why couldn’t Sam do the same?”
Source: Lies
“A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.”
“A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.”
“A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being too aware of race somehow, we're obsessed with it or we're seeing racism where there just isn't racism.”
“A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.”
“A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.”
“A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.”
“A part of every life, even a life meriting very little regard, is spent in searching out the reasons for its existence, its starting point, and its source. My own failure to discover these things has sometimes inclined me toward magical explanations, and has led me to seek in the frenzies of the occult for what common sense has not taught me.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel
“A part of him did not want to disrupt her—she was so with herself that stopping her rhythm would be like interrupting a play or telling a healthy sea animal to stop swimming. But greater than the need to admire was his need to follow that admiration—which meant talking to the stranger.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“A part of him felt she would always have been a mystery to him, elusive and enigmatic, but at the same time, she was comfortable as if they had been together for years.”
Source: Toxic Game
“A part of journalism’s perversion and the rise of infotainment is that voice is very important these days.”
Source: In Limbo
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
“A part of me didn't want to need anyone, miss anyone, even love anyone, It'd always been me against the world, and I didn't altogether enjoy that I was starting to lose that feeling. It usually meant that something awful was going to happen”
Source: Evil
“A part of me expects more of my only sister....Dorothy has always been exactly who she is, and for me to hope for anything better reminds me of a quote attributed to Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Dorothy is predictable. She does the same thing repeatedly and expects not a different result but the same one she got the last time she did whatever she wants with little regard for anyone else. So maybe she's the sane one....”
Source: Chaos
“A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.”
“A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.”
Source: Killosophy
“A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.”
“A part of me is eager to be back in my cell. At least there Isra cant cling to my arm, or brush her body against mine, or sigh through her parted lips, or tilt her face up with that look in her eyes. The one that make me want to strangle her. And kiss her. And strangle her some more. And maybe leap off a cliff after the strangling is done.”
Source: Of Beast and Beauty
“A part of me knew... from the moment I saw her;
her death would have been one wound too many that day.”
Source: Odd Hours
“A part of me sought the light in all the people I knew, but with the Shadows, it was like bringing them back from a subterfuge comma. Literally tearing the veil of blackness down and showing them the luminescence of light.”
Source: Abyss