Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  "'For me, England is a mythical place'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2005.

• Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fate, Years, Long

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2001). “When We Were Orphans”, p.382, Vintage

• I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Home, Thinking, Lunch

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