The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Related Quotes:
- Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Our parents would not be -˜The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Buried and burned. Never find them. Never. Buried and buried. – Hunter Shea
- A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent. – Gary Edward Gedall
- Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Whether anyone believes that fact is a fact or not, fact remains a fact – Adil Aijaz
- Family is a choice…Parents and siblings are your relations. Family takes care of one another and helps each other. – CL Stone
- Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand. – Clive Barker
- If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don’t believe the fact or it is not a fact. – Raheel Farooq
- Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to. – Dan Simmons
- People who believe in buried gods,’ said Louis.-˜Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?’-˜I’m Episcopalian. I believe in everything. – John Connolly
- Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- There’s the parent you want and the parent you have. – Karen Harrington
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent! – Rossana Condoleo
- The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace? – Ann Voskamp
- A philanderer cannot be a parent – a parent cannot be a philanderer. – Abhijit Naskar
- Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren’t a perfect parent. – Colleen Ferrary Bader
- A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY – Roald Dahl
- Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child’s needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. – Penelope Ward
- To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this. – Sofia Samatar
- She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think. – Laura Miller
- Someone who loves you, will act as sibling rather than a lover. – Olivie Boyke
- Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You’re both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it! – Bisco Hatori
- The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. – Charlotte Bront
- Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The boring thing with ‘No sex before marriage’ is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-”to most people-”not important at all. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings. – Anonymous
- You are such a sleazeball, Rhodes-”walking, talking proof of why siblings shouldn’t marry. – Cherise Sinclair