Alice Sebold Quotes

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

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

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children.

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

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

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

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

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

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

It's unconditional love with your kids.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

The only people on this planet that can make me feel like my feelings are hurt are my kids.

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

Fatherhood is great.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.