Parenthood Quotes
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.
Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.
Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.
His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.
Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.
I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like, 'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.
I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.
Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!
it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.
The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.
It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?
She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she needs. He has helped her learn to love herself for what she is.
Biology doesn't make anyone a parent, " Cassia added as she tucked her Eturian prayer stone beneath her shirt.
Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers.
A man can make a son but a true man would be a father. A lady can have a child, but a real mother raises the child.
Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?""Like what things?""Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.
It's a wild ride, this parenthood thing. Hardest thing I've done in my life and by far the best.
I have never compromised on academics and the one thing that I insist on is good grades, even though I am a relaxed and indulgent parent in most other things.
The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.
A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.
I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.
He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision.
But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.
The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.
You´re my son, Ed. You might be idiotic and irresponsible, but it doesn´t make the slightest difference to what I feel for you. I´m pissed off that you could have thought it would
Author Toni Morrison swats aside other possible sources of her success and says that the ONLY reason she is a great writer is because when she walked into a room as a child her father's face lit up.
She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.
Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.
Emma, Emma, Emma, " I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.