Quotes About Your Son Leaving Home

#1. I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

Stephan Pastis

#2. All knowledge pushed to its limit can be dangerous, and morbid, because life is endurable solely because we don't see it through to the end. An undertaking is only possible if we have conserved a minimum of illusions. Complete lucidity is the void!

Emil Cioran

#3. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

Henry Miller

#4. Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.

John Climacus

#5. I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.

Abby Wambach

#6. He's taken a shower, washed me off his skin. He looks better for it, but he won't look me in the eye when he asks if I'd like a coffee. This isn't what I wanted: none of this is right. I don't want to do this. I don't want to lose control again.

Paula Hawkins

#7. That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

Michael Ventura

#8. We try not to talk much about mental fatigue.

Tommy Bowden

#9. When this is over," she said, tucking the watch into a fold of her cloak. "I want to be the one to slit his throat.

V.E Schwab

#10. It may upset my secret sisters that I say this, but between you and me, if you're so fortunate as to have captured the perfect male, peeling off that chain-mail bikini and becoming a part-time Amazon is not so bad after all.
-Author's Note, Anne Fortier

Anne Fortier

#11. It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. You're never too old to chase your dream.

Diana Nyad

#13. I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called a child of God, the Beloved of the Father? 9

J.P. Moreland

#14. Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

Murasaki Shikibu

#15. I need energy every day. Whether I'm leaving home and going to practice or getting in the car with my two kids to take my son to school - I need all the energy I can get.

Chris Paul

#16. The one significant change is in fact the second significant change

Jonathan Pearce

#17. I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

John Major