Sterling K. Brown Quotes

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.

I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

Every father loves their children. I love my two sons very dearly. The only thing that is important to me is that they do what they want to do. They shouldn't feel a sense of obligation.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

If you're a girl, you're always Daddy's little girl. You're vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you'd become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.

When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of time either by myself or with my mom. But when I hit high school, she really became one of my close friends.

My life has been filled with beautiful memories of my father. You often hear people talk about 'daddy's girl.' Well, that was me.

I enjoyed being a teenager.

Both of my parents have loved and supported me from my very first strides.

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.