Respectable Parents Quotes

#1. It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Samuel Butler

#2. One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day's work?'

David Heinemeier Hansson

#3. Maybe it's better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our hearts.

Andrea Cremer

#4. The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.

Jennifer Senior

#5. She hadn't told Klaus about her plan, because she didn't want to give him false hope, so without waking him, she gathered up her grappling hook and tiptoed out of her room.

Lemony Snicket

#6. except one bit about a movie with werewolves and a woman bursting like a balloon is just special effects, that's drawing on computers.

Emma Donoghue

#7. The issues the underground press raised have not been settled. In colder times they may have frosted over, but as long as individuals and groups seek to take control of their own lives the experiences of those times contain information that can and must be used.

Nigel Fountain

#8. Most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.

Sarah-Patton Boyle

#9. All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Joan Chen

#10. What ambiguity there is in exalted things. We despise them a little.

Don DeLillo

#11. I felt significantly insignificant, as if my presence in the world, albeit small, was still necessary.

Jewel E. Ann

#12. My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren't prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.

Joss Sheldon

#13. The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

Charles Spurgeon