Parent Aging Quotes

#1. My concern is not the fact that other people don't understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing

Sunday Adelaja

#2. When I go to sleep, someone wakes up to get their hustle on, that's why I get my 2 hours, their 2 hours and overseas 2 hours in. I'll make sure no one can catch me.

Behdad Sami

#3. I wanted Isabel, but she was such an impossible thing to want.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.

Bernie Siegel

#5. I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.

Benjamin Bratt

#6. But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.

Dave Barry

#7. Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

John C. Maxwell

#8. I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

Jennifer Saunders

#9. I now urge friends and acquaintances to have conversations with their aging parents and within their families while their parents are still relatively healthy and of sound mind.

Lisa J. Shultz

#10. Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

Dorothy Allison

#11. What do we teach our children? ... We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique ... You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

Pablo Casals

#12. The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.

Ernesto Sirolli

#13. I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#14. Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

#15. Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#16. Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

Rashida Jones

#17. These people are out of control. It's stunning.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#18. The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

Louis C.K.

#19. The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

Aldrich Ames

#20. The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Warren Buffett