Best Parenthood Quotes

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

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Before I had my first child, I never really looked forward in anticipation to the future. As I watched my son grow and learn, I began to imagine the world this generation of children would live in. I thought of the children they would have, and of their children. I felt connected to life both before my time and beyond it. Children are our link to future generations that we will never see.

The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

It’s true: I don’t remember what life was like before parenthood.

What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

In today’s world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.

It’s powerfully important for me as a pro-choice person and person who supports Planned Parenthood to have Rob accept me as not a baby-killing horrible person. That’s actually a massive step away from his original position, and he’s taking a lot of heat in his world just for being my friend, just for hanging around with me.

You will always be your child’s favorite toy.

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents… Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear’s People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name – why didn’t he do this sooner? Why didn’t he see it coming? It’s the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author’s life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children’s future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

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

You have to be the parent; you can’t be their friend.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.