Parenthood Quotes

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

~ Neal Shusterman

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

~ David Halberstam

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

~ Abraham Lincoln

It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Culture was actually humanity’s attempt to extend the womb.

~ Christopher Henry Dawson

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation, manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

~ John Howard Griffin

As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.

~ Sherry Turkle

Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.

~ Richard Brookhiser

The myth is not my own, I have it from my mother. Euripides

~ Joseph Campbell

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. How to render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold.

~ Joseph Campbell

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

~ Tom Clancy

They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.

~ Charles Murray

It used to be that parents didn't have to be home. If a neighbor so I child misbehaving, it was considered appropriate for the neighbor to intervene. The parents would be grateful when they found out, and they would take the word of the neighbor if the child protested his innocence.Unmarried and divorced parents tend not to behave that way. Instead, they tend to try to be the good guy to their children.

~ Charles Murray

Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.

~ J.m. Barrie

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.

~ Brooke Hauser

We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.

~ Randy Alcorn

...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.

~ Gillian Flynn

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

~ Flannery O'connor

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

~ Peter Krause

Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012).

~ Jill Smokler

People who are not fully enlightened have no business becoming parents. This contradicts the conventionally accepted notion that people have an inherent right to have children. They do not. People who have a compulsion to traumatize a child, even in the mildest forms, are breaking the child's human rights, though of course the parental compulsion to find false pleasure through procreation obliterates their awareness of these rights. But interestingly, many parents would agree that convicted pedophiles and child murderers have no right to procreate, because of the dynamics in which they are so likely to engage.

~ Daniel Mackler

Conscious parenting is not about being perfect, it's about being aware. Aware of what your kids need from you to reach more of their full potential.

~ Alex Urbina

Human making is our mission.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In parenting patience is the greatest virtue.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Are You a Parent or a Bully? Mentally and physically abusing your children is NOT okay. Real parenting does NOT consist of bullying your children, belittling your children, manipulating your children, beating your children, or cursing at your children. Children are a blessing! Many women can’t get pregnant and/or carry to term. Think about that! Parenting should be taken seriously. Children need LOVE, support, and guidance, NOT a bully! Children shouldn’t fear their parents. It’s important to create healthy relationships with your children, seriously.

~ Stephanie Lahart

Console the failure, but nurture the hunger.

~ Bryan Cranston

Having kids is not the same as being a parent.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

When we raise our children to Shine, the future becomes brighter!

~ Brigette Foresman

As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, ‘everybody wants to cut a movie’.

~ Drexel Deal

There is something about being loved and protected by a parent (or guardian) knowing that I can be loved for who I am, not what I can do, or might one day become. Unfortunately it’s not usually like this in every single situation. From time to time, my parents made mistakes during my childhood. Possibly I was the mistake, or unwanted. But I don’t know. I had every material thing that I could have ever wanted, but there was still something missing, as if I felt distanced from my parents, or misunderstood, in the ways that they treated me. At times, I had felt completely loved and accepted by my parents, but for one reason or another, they were unable to care for me, provide for me, in some ways that would have been very important. Sometimes I feel like I am trying to make up for the experiences in life that were absent when I was a child.

~ Jonathan Harnisch

Children are mirrors; they will always show you exactly what is going on inside of you. Each phase of their growth is an opportunity to heal your own pain, to go deeper inside yourself and become more truly human

~ Vimala Mcclure

As parents we're meant to help each other out and build each other up.

~ Galit Breen

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

~ Kenneth Oppel

Love had still seemed like such a paltry thing in the face of all my doubts then, much the way it felt now. David had worries my love couldn’t touch, fears my love couldn’t easily dispel. My love seemed like a well-worn blanket instead of the titanium shield I needed.

~ Andrea Lochen

What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?

~ Ruth Minshull

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

~ Ruth Minshull

Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.

~ Kelly Corrigan

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

~ Lois Leveen