Maurice Sendak Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Thinking, Years

• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

  Maurice Sendak

  Thinking, People, Parent

• That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

• As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

  Maurice Sendak

  Kids, Parent

• All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

  Maurice Sendak

  Parent, Wanted

  "Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. September 9, 2008.

• Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Kids, Parent

• We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

  Maurice Sendak

  Nice, Parent, Christmas Card

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.

  Maurice Sendak

  Kids, Parent, Unheard

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Parent, Discreet

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Kids, Boys

  Source: www.hbook.com

• Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Kids, Parent

  "Remembering Maurice Sendak and the Wild Things" by Anita Voelker, www.foxnews.com. May 8, 2012.

• Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mom, Children, Dad

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