Negligent Parent Quotes

#1. Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than the day before. It's like a negligent parent who only knows one half of who you are. It never sees how its absence changes people. How different we are in the dark.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat and a civil rights leader during the 1960s, was one of those calling on the president for a more robust federal response, such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower did against Jim Crow-defending Southern governors.

Anonymous

#3. I don't think I've ever seen someone take so much pleasure in making someone else miserable. . . it's an ugly sore.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.

Marlene Dietrich

#6. I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

Sergio Aragones

#7. What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

Dermot Mulroney

#8. Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, 'Oh, you get to make a movie, and it's all fun.' But the reality is, it's a lot of hours. It's a lot of reshoots; it's a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that's real.

Jill Scott

#9. If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now - the ground is prepared for this planting.

Dorothy Maclean

#10. Von Neumann, by contrast, wore a three-piece suit at almost all times, including on a donkey ride down the Grand Canyon; even as a student he was so well dressed that, upon first meeting him, the mathematician David Hilbert reportedly had but one question: Who is his tailor?45

Walter Isaacson

#11. Ideas emerge from edges and shadows to arrive in the light, and though that's where they may be seen by others, that's not where they're born.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. But you have two perfectly good Doms at your beck and call. You don't need to take taxis and deal with doctors on your own.

Sean Michael

#13. The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

Adolf Hitler

#14. The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.

John Piper