Quotes About Hurting Your Parents

#1. This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, I won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions of being bothered ... a person who, so far as self-knowledge is concerned, is just a moron.

Aldous Huxley

#3. And is that what love looks like
all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?"
"Sometimes it is.

David Nicholls

#4. I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

Adam Carolla

#5. I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

John Muir

#6. It isn't me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I'm not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.

Immortal Technique

#7. I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

John Green

#8. You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Peter Singer

#9. Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, 'We think Channing would be better at football ... We love him, he's really great, but he's kind of hurting our children.' I was just a little wild.

Channing Tatum

#10. But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.

Francis Thompson

#11. The sea is a dangerous place for a woman," said Mr. Chadwick, nodding. "So is dry land," said Chloe.

James K. Morrow

#12. Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.

Allison Tolman

#13. Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

Thomas Seward

#14. If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.

Berry Gordy

#15. While my sister and I were reminded we did not cause this pain, it was knowing that because we broke our silence about what had been done to us, our parents were hurting. That knowledge was hard on us.

Erin Merryn

#16. One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.

Blaise Cendrars

#17. My parents walked around me on tiptoe, afraid of hurting me. But I knew how disappointed they were. All of a sudden the daughter they had been so proud of was a returnee from a mental hospital.

Haruki Murakami