Quotes About Alcoholic Parents

#1. Human beings are like the screwed-up children of alcoholic parents in that way, picking up the pieces afterward and trying to make up reasons why.

Joe Schreiber

#2. If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

Emile M. Cioran

#3. I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Martha Smith

#4. An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

Sonia Sotomayor

#5. Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

Fulton J. Sheen

#6. It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

Janis Joplin

#7. A moment of reserve. "That was it? The whole story?"
"Yes. God, you're right. That was pants."
I sidestep another aggressive couscous vendor. "Pants?"
"Rubbish. Crap. Shite."
Pants. Oh heavens, that's cute.

Stephanie Perkins

#8. We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

Lauryn Hill

#9. Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without.

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

Larry Holmes

#11. I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

Faith Sullivan

#12. A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

Joyce Meyer

#13. Only absolute and unshakable faith in God can make us rule over the world

Sunday Adelaja

#14. You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position, you can find ways to make your car very wide!

Romain Grosjean

#15. I became alcoholic at around age of 13 or 14. I was full-blown. Every day we would hide the alcohol, stealing from stores or stealing it from our parents and hiding out in dirt fields and drinking it before school and after school.

Reginald Arvizu

#16. Marriage is not as necessary for survival of the species as it used to be, and it has suffered somewhat from the change.

Patricia Briggs