Mitch Albom Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Children, Believe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

• Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

  Mitch Albom

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.77, Hachette UK

• I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Love You, Mean

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.130, Hachette UK

• Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

  Mitch Albom

  Hurt, Kids, Parenting

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.60, Hachette UK

• But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

  Mitch Albom

  Sad, Losing A Loved One, Fighting

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.10, Hachette UK

• The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Children, Fall

• It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?

  Mitch Albom

  Kids, Parent, Imbalance

• All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Parent, Damage

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

• Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

  Mitch Albom

  Letting Go, Children, Moving

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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