„You cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your circumstances, because you are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.“

— Oprah Winfrey

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„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
„Drugs will turn you into your parents.“
— Frank Zappa
„If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.“
— Jodi Picoult
„If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.“
— Henry Rollins
„I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids…Because as soon as you have a kid, you know for sure that you're going to die. When you have a kid, you see your own gravestone.“
— Stephen King
„An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.“
— Jane Austen