Parenthood Quotes - Page 2

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

I demand for the unmarried mother as a sacred channel of life the same reverence and respect as for the married mother for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

Ben Lindsey

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

German Proverb

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Robert Burton

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Evelyn Waugh

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Josh Billings

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.

Anonymous

A father is a banker provided by nature.

French proverb

To become a father is not hard to be a father is however.

Wilhelm Busch

Our sons who so easily recognize our errors and rightly denounce them will have to confess their own later on and they may be as bad as ours perhaps worse.

Bruce Hutchison

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honoré de Balzac

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Jewish Proverb

A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.

Anonymous

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Will Durant

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

John Ciardi

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

Bertrand Russell

Don't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical saying

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

Philip Roth

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Spanish Proverb

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

Moorish proverb

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

George Bernard Shaw

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

Christopher Lasch

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Anthony Powell

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Alvin Toffler

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

George Bernard Shaw

Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out it takes much more courage to listen.

John D. Rockefeller III

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Rob Lowe

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

George Eliot

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

Clarice Lispector

That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but because of the gift. Father doesn't stay with Mother because she is good for him, but rather because together they can do good for us, and for many others.

Orson Scott Card

My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”—Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Arthur Conan Doyle

The debt we owe our parents can never be squared, and jolly good too, because doing so would threaten to nullify all relationship, all emotional commerce between the two generations. Being in debt, just like being in credit, means an active interest applies between the two parties and, once the debt is taken care of, the interest is bound to wane.

Robert Rowland Smith

Apparently, the easiest way to overcome any awkwardness of speaking about sex is to sterilize it and outsource it to the professionals.

Matthew Lee Anderson

It’s certainly TOUGH being AWESOME all the time, but I do it so the kids have someone to look up to!

Tanya Masse

The door was flung open. Maurice Duplay filled it; energetic master, shirt- sleeves rolled up. He threw out his arms, the good Jacobin Duplay, and formed a sentence totally original, something which had never been uttered in the history of the world: “Camille, you have a son, and your wife is very well, and is asking you to be at home, right now.

Hilary Mantel

I kept glancing at her animated face, scrunched up as though imitating an adult. I got hit with that overwhelming feeling. It sneaked up on me. Parents get it from time to time. You are looking at your child and it is an ordinary moment, not like they are onstage or hitting a winning shop, just sitting there, and you look at them and you know that they are your whole life and that moves you and scares you and makes you want to stop time.

Harlan Coben

I was into third guesses with Theo and Maddy. Anyway, that's one of the reasons I opted to buythe van and drive cross-country instead of dumping us all in a plane. It gave us some time. Nothinglike a three-thousand-mile drive in an enclosed vehicle to cement a family unit—if you live throughit.""It was very brave of you.""You want to talk courage?" He drove easily up the lane to the villa. "I've been chief taste-testeron this wine experiment Maddy's conducting. It's brut

Nora Roberts

I don't know why I wanted a girl,' he says, as if to himself. 'I mean, I wouldn't swap Louis, but when they said, 'It's a boy!', I thought: 'Oh, well.' Everyone else was incredibly pleased that it was a boy – grandparents are always very pleased when it's a boy for some reason. Another one's on the way, and I hope it's going to be a girl. After that, I'll stop. I think it can be a real mistake to sort of plug away for a particular sex … you end up having millions and they're all boys.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.

Paul Asay

Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?'His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.

Courtney Milan

It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the time; it is fluid, in perceptual flux, an evolving business across a lifetime.

Andrew Solomon

Parenthood wasn’t about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own needs for someone else’s. When you loved your kids, you’d give up everything to keep them safe and make them happy, and you didn’t care about the other things, the ones that went away.

Lisa Unger

We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn't that how we knew we were parents?

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Where did the bonds of maternity end? All children grew up, changed, became somebody else. Parents who trembled that they might lose a gap-toothed toddler to some terrible accident ended up losing him anyway, always, to time. The toddlers died, after all, and what was left was a bond with another adult, who had once been the beloved child.

Nancy Kress

Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.

Michael Gerson

If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.

N. Scott Momaday

One of the ridiculously difficult things about raising children is that they are constantly developing and changing so that just when you think you have them figured out, they throw you a curve, a new twist you never saw coming. They are like mutating viruses - as soon as you have become immune to their latest shenanigans, they develop a new strain to which you have yet to be exposed. While this constant shape-shifting is one of the greatest challenges of parenting, it is also one of the things which makes them so fascinating and wonderful.

Amy E. Spiegel

Acknowledge and voice the positives LOUDER than the negatives.

Tanya Masse

We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

What was I waiting for with regards to the sea-soaked woman laughing in front of me? What would I tell myself if I didn't watch her grow gorgeously ripe with our baby? If we didn't become sleep-deprived and snappy with each other as we tried to navigate the stormy seas of parenthood together.

Dorothy Koomson

He felt her heartbeat against his shoulder, through his jacket, light as raindrops.

Lauren Gilley

It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.

Caitlin Moran

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’ One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too? And could you in any way protect your son from Sansara? How could you? By means of teachings, prayer, admonition? My dear, have you entirely forgotten that story, that story containing so many lessons, that story about Siddhartha, a Brahman's son, which you once told me here on this very spot? Who has kept the Samana Siddhartha safe from Sansara, from sin, from greed, from foolishness? Were his father's religious devotion, his teachers warnings, his own knowledge, his own search able to keep him safe? Which father, which teacher had been able to protect him from living his life for himself, from soiling himself with life, from burdening himself with guilt, from drinking the bitter drink for himself, from finding his path for himself? Would you think, my dear, anybody might perhaps be spared from taking this path? That perhaps your little son would be spared, because you love him, because you would like to keep him from suffering and pain and disappointment? But even if you would die ten times for him, you would not be able to take the slightest part of his destiny upon yourself.

Hermann Hesse

He should be very proud of Andrew if he got a scholarship, he said. She would be just as proud of him if he didn't, she answered. They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, and he liked her to be proud of Andrew whatever he did.

Virginia Woolf

then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy.

Hermann Hesse

After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that he was not allowed to cling him. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine.

Hermann Hesse

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