Quotes About Stepchild

#1. Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Frank Mir

#2. I'll beat you like a red headed stepchild.

Mark Osler

#3. I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture.

Marc Guggenheim

#4. I've held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That's my fashion stepchild.

Johnny Weir

#5. The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

Jennifer Baumgardner

#6. I've a sweet temper, but I can't stand being agreed with.

Saki

#7. Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey.

Sharon Kay Penman

#8. The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

John McEnroe

#9. Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

Twyla Tharp

#10. I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didn't exist.

Jennifer Egan

#11. "Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.

Ilana Glazer

#12. Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there. I love Big Sur. It's stunning and you get a therapeutic experience there. The drive up the coast is one of the most beautiful I've ever done. Also, Hong Kong. I could easily live there!

Meghan Markle

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Jennifer Robson

#14. I run around my house naked with heels all the time. It's so funny.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#15. Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...

Johnny D. Boggs

#16. Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws.

Brennan Manning

#17. Sleep: the stepchild of Death.

Nancy A. Collins

#18. Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

Adam Mansbach

#19. Got it. Look for a room with a sign with a big arrow that says, 'Kidnapped Mancies Here,' " he said.

Jaye Wells

#20. Patrick walked in dressed in an utterly unmentionable bathrobe. I was pretty sure that Disney wouldn't have approved of what their cartoon characters were doing on that dark blue satin background. On the other hand, I was really glad he had on the bathrobe.

Rachel Caine

#21. In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

Jack Ma

#22. I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.

Harry Knowles

#23. Things I didn't expect to do my senior year:
Become a drug dealer.
Become my mother.
Find and lose the love of my life.

Leah Raeder

#24. It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

Edward Kennedy

#25. They felt kind of like dolls, with Ali arranging their every move.

Sara Shepard

#26. So about this Leon god thing? I don't know of any gods named Leon. Is he like the red-headed stepchild god that no one claims?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#27. I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Jay Parini

#28. Poverty is not the stepchild of the Great Recession; poverty has always been a part of American life.

Tavis Smiley

#29. Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy ... and on and on and on.

R.A. Salvatore