Parents

"The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

"Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being."

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."

"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"A woman becomes a responsible parent when she quit being an obedient child."

"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."

"Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on."

"My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together."

"People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents."