Kevin Crossley-Holland Quotes

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

Every child needs both parents.

I always wonder what my life would be like if I had parents like the other kids who went to my high school.

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.