Parenthood Quotes
It's tough being AWESOME all the time, but the kids need someone to look up to!
He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application
What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.
As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin
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.
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.
These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
It’s certainly TOUGH being AWESOME all the time, but I do it so the kids have someone to look up to!
Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.
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.
We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn't that how we knew we were parents?
He felt her heartbeat against his shoulder, through his jacket, light as raindrops.