Parents Hurt You Quotes

#1. We lived in Colorado, and my parents were outdoorsy mountain people. My father would always say, 'Go out and don't come back until you have something to show me.' Which meant he wanted me to come back with a scraped knee or an injury. When I went out to play, I felt like I'd better get hurt.

Jessica Biel

#2. Tell her parents they made a big mistake calling the police. Call off the dogs," said the caller, "or we'll hurt Madison. Permanently. If you back off, she'll stay alive and well, but either way, the Tylers will never see their daughter

James Patterson

#3. I said to my parents that I don't even know if there should be an Israel. And they were just so upset and hurt.

Jill Soloway

#4. Children are not owned by parents. They have an inalienable right to come into this world to a loving mother and father who are married to each other. And they have an inalienable right to be protected from all who would hurt them.

Dennis Prager

#5. Ultimately of course, parents must take responsibility for their children's health, .. Our message must be: What you don't know about your children's health insurance options can hurt them. It's up to you to find out if your child is eligible for this health insurance.

Hillary Clinton

#6. I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were ... miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

John Green

#7. You are beautiful as always, Violet, he murmured. His parents smiled at us from where they sat sipping wine. There. Every single one of us was smiling.
It was all very pleasant, even if my cheeks were starting to hurt.

Alyxandra Harvey

#8. ..."there's a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be...

Nadia Hashimi

#9. Not only does overparenting hurt our children; it harms us, too. Parents today are scared, not to mention exhausted, anxious, and depressed.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#10. Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child's entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?

Dan Pearce

#11. If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

William J. Clinton

#13. People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances.

Derwin L. Gray

#14. Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child's definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.

David W. Earle

#15. Not even Dee's good influence could keep me from trying to hurt my parents the way they hurt me. At least that's what my court-appointed therapist thinks, and I hate to admit that she's probably right.

I also hate to admit that she's court-appointed.

Emery Lord

#16. It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.

Johnny Knoxville

#17. Please don't feel hurt, Satan, but my parents raised me to believe you didn't exist. My mom and dad said you and God were invented in the superstitious, backward pea brains of hillbilly preachers and Republican hypocrites.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

John Hurt

#19. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

Cathy Rigby

#20. Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Dan Pearce

#21. 'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

Richard Chamberlain

#22. Your parents could always hurt you, no matter how old you were.

Cassandra Clare

#23. So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by kissing it and putting a Band-Aid on it, but not so with the pain of sexual abuse.

Erin Merryn

#24. A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

Laura Schlessinger

#25. My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

Michael Franti

#26. She looks happy to me when she's beside you."
I laugh bitterly. "She looked real happy when she left."
"She looked hurt. Hurt means she cares. It's indifference that should scare you. The same look foster parents give you when you come and go.

Katie McGarry

#27. It would't be easy. Max was too hurt and her parents too upset for a cry session to fix everything, but it was the beginning, and that's all we can ask for in life - for a beginning to follow every end.

Cora Carmack

#28. How is it possible that our parents lied to us?"
"Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that ... "
"Everythings going to be alright.

Brian K. Vaughan

#29. Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son ... these aren't tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.

Dan Pearce

#30. It's like his parents are funneling years of their lives into Rusty so he'll get well sooner. But I think if that were possible, more children who got hurt would end up as orphans.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#31. SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

Douglas Coupland

#32. Parents always forgive you. Like sometimes, you see parents on the news, and their kid just got busted for murdering a 7-11 clerk, and they're like, 'But my Bubba's a good boy. He'd never hurt a fly.' So I'm sure your parents would forgive you for whatever you did.

Alex Flinn

#33. And what excuse was there for this? Nothing but the old line that parents and politicians will use before taking out their scalpels: I care about you, therefore I will upset you, I have honoured you with a vision of how you should be, therefore I will hurt you.

Alain De Botton

#34. My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

John Hurt

#35. I can't say that I've ever tried to hurt someone or humiliate them intentionally. My parents raised me to always be the bigger person or to treat others the way you want to be treated.

Nicole Anderson

#36. Love. It's God's greatest gift. He fills our world with it and makes sure we grow up with caring, supportive parents. I'm just kidding. Pain is God's greatest gift. Pain is God's way of saying, Hurts, don't it ? Well, go ahead. Say, me dammit again.

Christopher Titus

#37. Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

Patrick Ness

#38. If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

Shannon L. Alder

#39. I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

James Nesbitt