Quotes About Apron Strings

#1. Kids are supposed to grow up and cut the apron strings. I just never dreamed those sharp scissors would leave so many wounds.

Lisa Wingate

#2. It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron strings if the strings are virtual?

Kirstie Collins Brote

#3. You know how comfortably you go on as a bachelor, and how very much you would dislike to be tied to a wife's apron-strings."

He laughed a little ruefully, but denied it. "I shouldn't dislike being tied to your apron-strings.

Georgette Heyer

#4. I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.

Linda Cardellini

#5. Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. You spend so much time hating the fact that April behaves more like a mother than a sister, but you're the one who's holding onto the apron strings every time she tries to cut them.

Nicola Sinclair

#7. Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Most men probably wouldn't want to live the lives of bonobos. They're constantly clinging to their mothers' apron strings. They lack the ability to make decisions about their own fates, something that we and male chimpanzees practically consider our birthright.

Frans De Waal

#9. You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.

Robert Jordan

#10. You were right when you said I was holding onto April's apron strings even though she was trying to cut them. I've spent so long relying on her that it's sort of become a habit. It's time I relied on myself for a bit and took control of my life.

Nicola Sinclair

#11. Our friendship is made of bendy straws, long midnight letters,
my so-called life marathons, sleepless sleepovers, diner milk shakes, apron strings, a belief in beauty,
sucking helium, and the most trust I've ever felt for anyone, including myself.

David Levithan

#12. Safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

Margaret Deland

#13. Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.

Michael Kenna

#14. My ambitions have ambitions.

Behdad Sami

#15. True healing comes from owning and accepting all of life's energies within ourselves ... When they are allowed to be expressed, they take their places as important facets of our nature. There is no split between 'good' and 'bad.'

Shakti Gawain

#16. Sometimes with success comes some crazy that goes along with it.

Robert Knepper

#17. The tiny conversation they'd had would reveal no evidence of her frayed edges.

Scot Gardner

#18. In his secretiveness he didn't merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.

Bill Bryson

#19. You will have sacrificed the lives of the people for personal honor, an empty word," Luan said. "That seems to me a most selfish act.

Ken Liu

#20. Cassia and I sit as near to each other as we can. She leans into me and I keep my arms around her. I don't fool myself that I hold her together- she does that on her own- but holding her keeps me from flying apart.

Ally Condie

#21. To Avoid Self Destruction Is Not To Be Grouped Through Life By Pursuing Education Alone

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

William Shakespeare

#23. It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

Douglas Adams

#24. The People adore authority.

Charles Baudelaire

#25. Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed

Esther M. Friesner

#26. But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

Bernice Weissbourd

#27. Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

Adam Braun