Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Family, God, Home

• Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want Something, Parent, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.202, W. W. Norton & Company

• Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Parenting, Opiates, Parenthood

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

• First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving, Parent, Trying

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

• Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Parent, Want, Folks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

• You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Growing Up, Parent, Proof

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.33, Random House

• As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Jobs, Kids

  "'It's Paula-nick'". Online Q&A, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.

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