Parenthood Quotes

You right! You one hundred percent right! I done spent the last seventeen years worrying about what ...

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerat...

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly los...

A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progr...

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sens...

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took n...

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothin...

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Da...

- How does it feel to have a daughter?- At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same ti...

The sound of her breathing reminded me, as it so often did, of how vulnerable she was. And how vulne...

To receive children’s love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most po...

The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...

I watched 60 Minutes...and they showed this woman, she's in every kind of..thing like that. 'This wo...

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when ...

But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just l...

Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason - for insurance against later regret....

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense l...

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white...

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorro...

He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow ...

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was an...

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

When one has not had a good father one must create one.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the...

Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the inte...

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us togeth...

He seriously thought that there is less harm in killing a man than producing a child: in the first c...

Originality must compound with inheritance.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffer...

Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from ...

After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his d...

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it...

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too muc...

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would ...

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy...

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his ...

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased...

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost o...

Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls...

As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that t...

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through...

Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That'...

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of m...

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the...

To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while.

Dr. Xia was working as a salaried doctor attached to another man's medicine shop, which did not give...

It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’...

Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our...

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope yo...

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More ...

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the childre...

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react stro...

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the rig...

Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually lik...

On her way toward the shore, she kept coming across weekend tourists. Every cluster of them presente...

She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she ne...

You are almost never cool to your children.

Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those t...

. . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating w...

Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that ...

That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but b...

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t...

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they d...

Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskm...

Married love, therefore, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the...

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an inno...

The Mother Thing makes our world.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particula...

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wi...

Miseries of a birth.

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the a...

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.

Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set...

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child be...

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt...