Bad Parental Quotes

#1. Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

Clare Balding

#2. Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay.

Vincent Lowry

#3. He's a pig," whispers May, her frail body wavering in the firelight. "An ugly pink pig. And I think the pig needs to be butchered.

Mav Skye

#4. Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry ensures that moms and dads feel inadequate at every turn.

Jessica Valenti

#5. You can't beat yourself up anymore,' he says. 'And you can't compare your thing to my thing or to anyone else's thing on the how-bad-should-I-feel? scale.

Melissa C. Walker

#6. Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

Ali Landry

#7. What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?

Jandy Nelson

#8. Nature loves to hide.

Heraclitus

#9. Cross a small dog with a pig and you have a pug.

Alyxandra Harvey

#10. The water has a Water that is driving it;
The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.

Rumi

#11. I could just hear my mom now, You know those old candy cigarettes are bad for you. Next thing you know, you'll be drinking alcohol, and they'll find you dead in a ditch somewhere. I'll never be able to show my face in this town again.

K. Martin Beckner

#12. The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Bill O'Reilly

#13. I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

William Styron

#14. I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

Kate Middleton