Browsing Topic Best Parenthood Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

There’s no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

Everyone wins when children – and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls’ education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.

If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children’s faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

These Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness…We are not going to have our men become subservient.

Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.

The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.

I work, and then I leave the office, and I’m with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don’t feel like I’m exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don’t believe the kids should be given homework.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline…. But also every single day a kid needs a break.

In response to our fast-food culture, a ‘slow food’ movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

A lot of the problems of parenthood are universal. Yes, it’s harder being younger and growing up yourself, but all those anxieties and problems are going to be faced by anyone at any age. When people hear about teenage parents and teenage pregnancy, they attribute a lot of personality traits to those individuals, which is just such a bizarre thing when you really think about it. Like, how does age and circumstance equate to some kind of personality trait?

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I mean you’re given all these lessons for the unimportant things–piano-playing, typing. You’re given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.