Angry Parent Quotes

#1. Grief is just so scary ... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.

Anne Lamott

#2. A self-confident person isn't boastful or pushy but is secure with herself in a way that inspires confidence in others. She values herself regardless of her physical attributes or individual talents, understanding that honor and character are what really matter.

Peggy Post

#3. Sure, but competition is good for the user.

Wietse Venema

#4. A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

Dennis Prager

#5. Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places.

Bill O'Reilly

#6. We're not mad, he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

Thomm Quackenbush

#7. Sometimes to be a good parent ... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

Daniel Pearce

#8. Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.

John Waters

#9. No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

Henry Clay Trumbull

#10. Before anything else, determine your direction right, because if your direction is wrong, you may end up in deserts instead of green valleys!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Benjamin Spock

#12. If you are thinking whether to cry or laugh, cry.

Nikola Ivanovski

#13. Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

Sylvester Stallone

#14. Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jean De La Fontaine

#15. A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

Michael Sheen

#16. Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

Lauren Miller

#17. Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged then its expression is increased. The parent seems super-strong. The adolescent tries to become the super-attacker.

Terri E Apter

#18. The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used.

Andrea Dworkin

#19. And unlike most of our kin, he did not stay angry and blame white folk for his shortcomings like an adult child blames his once abusive parent.

Noel Anenberg

#20. Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

Caroline Myss

#21. I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

Larry Page

#22. My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

Alice Hoffman

#23. I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

Rosanne Cash

#24. I'm not planning to assassinate her." Jonas met each of their gazes in turn. "I'm planning to kidnap her.

Morgan Rhodes

#25. In the Greek way of dealing with alchemy, which was earth, air, fire and water, these were the objective qualities. Within the objective qualities - things of earth, air, fire and water - are our subjective experiences of hot, cold, dry, and moist.

Fred Alan Wolf

#26. Every man is the author of his own life.

Paul Auster