#1. It can be really frightening for young people to see their parents fighting. Remember, you’re not alone and there are people out there who can support you. – Author: Neil Buchanan

#2. From a child’s point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting. – Author: Susie Orbach

#3. That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them. – Author: Miguel Ruiz

#4. The penguins that spent most of their time fighting were the ones with no chicks … It’s like they’re supposed to be taking care of their chicks. But because they don’t have any, they have nothing to do with all their energy. So they just pick fights. – Author: Maria Semple

#5. I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents. – Author: Zach Braff

#6. The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn’t easy – especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don’t write a memoir at age fourteen. – Author: Leigh Newman

#7. The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they’d ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy. – Author: Angelina Jolie

#8. I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents’ house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it. – Author: Louise Erdrich

#9. My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don’t know what it was made of. Just going there it’s like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It’s very stressful. – Author: Jedediah Bila

#10. Being a teenager is chaotic because you’re kind of coming into your own, but you’re not an adult; you’re fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom. – Author: Troian Bellisario

#11. Adoption was a bumpy ride – very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight. – Author: Mariska Hargitay

#12. My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting. – Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents? – Author: Wesley Clark

#14. If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. ‘If you ain’t scared of standing up for what’s right, you ain’t standing up for much. – Author: Kenneth Logan

#15. He just has to step away from the moment to see it. Which isn’t surprising. Lots of parents will tell you that when they aren’t fighting with their teenagers about homework or scraping up raisins their toddlers have expertly ground into the kitchen floor, they’re quite happy, upon reflection. – Author: Jennifer Senior

#16. Well, it’s true for every elder sibling, We have this supremely potent weapon “parents ” on our side in such matters. In fact, such are the times when our maturity works wonders in hitching parents to our side over these younger siblings. – Author: Parul Wadhwa

#17. One thing I’ve learnt is you should never fight it. They’re natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that’s what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help. – Author: Simon Cowell

#18. And the Children of the Warmakers’re exempt from fighting their parents’ war – Author: Allen Ginsberg

#19. Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front. – Author: Tom Vilsack

#20. I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight. – Author: Phyllis Diller

#21. Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with her sister in a caravan in Filey while her parents drank steadily and looked out at the rain, a sort of harsh experiment in the limits of human proximity. – Author: David Nicholls

#22. For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It’s not violence on them – it’s the feeling of violence in the family. – Author: Avi Arad

#23. We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us. – Author: Bruce Springsteen

#24. The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there’s not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn’t necessarily sign up for this. – Author: Katy Perry

#25. When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me … and no one showed up. – Author: Rodney Dangerfield

#26. Some of the most important lessons I’ve learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles. – Author: Anna Quindlen

#27. My brother and I had always been very close, especially living in such a dysfunctional family environment. My earliest memories were of my parents screaming and fighting, especially during the holidays. So, we’d weathered the storms together. In – Author: Kristen Middleton

#28. The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it. – Author: Vincent Cassel

#29. We are all frustrated with computers, all the time … But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days – something my parents never had … there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it. – Author: Wade Guyton

#30. You’d put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?” Ghleanna demanded.
“She saved my life.”
“You can fight your own battles!”
“Not when I’m knocked out on my ass!”
“You mean knocked out on your fat ass!”
“My ass, like the rest of me, is perfection! – Author: G.A. Aiken

#31. When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic. – Author: Scott Thompson

#32. It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance. – Author: Dan Pearce

#33. The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn’t do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl’s mother. – Author: Ayelet Waldman

#34. Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn’t as hunky-dory like it was. – Author: Darren Aronofsky

#35. Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom. – Author: Haim Ginott

#36. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult. – Author: Ezra Miller

#37. When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn’t have feelings, I had certainties. – Author: Philippe Petit

#38. I’m fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need. – Author: Kirsten Gillibrand