Quotes About Disowning Your Child

#1. Will you beat me if I say no?" he whispered fearfully.
September thought she might cry. "Oh ... oh dear. Not all the world is like that. Well. I am not like that.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. Different people carry different toolboxes.

Andre Dubus III

#3. In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of all others is far the most preferable, cannot be supported without virtue.

Samuel Williams

#4. Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Robert Benchley

#5. This was the elasticity and permanence of parental love; everything vile about your children was to some degree something vile about yourself, and disowning your child for their failings could only compound your own.

Jennifer DuBois

#6. Energy and invincible determination, these two things will sweep away mighty barriers and will surmount the greatest obstacles

William Walker Atkinson

#7. The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

C.S. Lewis

#8. THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought,
and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.

Wei Wu Wei

#9. She rose suddenly and put out

Deanna Raybourn

#10. No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that.

Gabrielle Reece

#11. It was never a good idea to confide in people. They always remembered, and when they came up to you in the street, years later, you could see the information was still firmly attached to your face and present in the way they said your name and the pressure of their hand clasping yours.

Helen Simonson

#12. I'm a hopeless romantic.

Lance Bass

#13. You don't get on your feet if you don't have to, you know. And these people were on their feet rockin', and that was thrilling for David and I, absolutely.

Graham Nash