Best 405 quotes in «parenthood quotes» category

What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won't be someone I could have created by myself.

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare. And it is desperately unfair to the boy. He cannot live his parents' life over again for them. He cannot make up for their own lacks, their own unfulfillments. He cannot carry their torch -- only his own.

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

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.

When a parent dies, for those left behind it can feel as though half the sky has fallen. My father was the sheltering sky, and beneath his mild firmament no storm ever raged, no hard rain fell.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

When we take Iggy to the doctor together now, the nurse always says how happy it makes her to see a father helping out with a baby. 'I’m certainly doing their team a lot of favors', you mutter.

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)

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

...with kids, silence is never golden, only suspicious.

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day. You think about the future and read about global warming. You realize how nice it feels to care about someone else more than yourself. And gradually, through this heart-heavy openness and these fresh eyes, you start to see the world a little more. Maybe you start to care a teeny tiny bit more about what happens to everyone in it.

Where the parents are not 'good enough' the rest of the programme for life may be distorted and later stages in the archetypal sequence may fail to be realized. Thus, the boy whose father was inadequate or absent may fail to actualize his masculine potential sufficiently to establish the social or vocational role his talents equip him for, or he may be unable to sustain a relationship with a member of the opposite sex long enough for him to become an adequate husband or father himself.

When you push your stroller past a group of elderly women, you'll see in the turning gladness of their bodies a glimpse of the children they had been, turning toward the tin music of the ice cream van.

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

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.

You are almost never cool to your children.

Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too? And could you in any way protect your son from Sansara? How could you? By means of teachings, prayer, admonition? My dear, have you entirely forgotten that story, that story containing so many lessons, that story about Siddhartha, a Brahman's son, which you once told me here on this very spot? Who has kept the Samana Siddhartha safe from Sansara, from sin, from greed, from foolishness? Were his father's religious devotion, his teachers warnings, his own knowledge, his own search able to keep him safe? Which father, which teacher had been able to protect him from living his life for himself, from soiling himself with life, from burdening himself with guilt, from drinking the bitter drink for himself, from finding his path for himself? Would you think, my dear, anybody might perhaps be spared from taking this path? That perhaps your little son would be spared, because you love him, because you would like to keep him from suffering and pain and disappointment? But even if you would die ten times for him, you would not be able to take the slightest part of his destiny upon yourself.

Yet despite the complexity of contemporary society, there are still some simple formulas we can use to distill the path to social and economic flourishing. One of these, labeled the “Success Sequence,” and credited to Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill of the left-of-center Brookings Institute, proposes a three-step rule book for modern American life: 1. Finish high school. 2. Get a job. (Any job. Because working leads to more working, which leads to better jobs.) 3. Get married before having children. When people follow this pattern—and crucially, in this order—life generally turns out pretty well.

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

You have ONE job as a parent. Raising a responsible human being. If you don't set high expectations for that human being - the world will have yet another crappy human being. Give them chores. Force them to do them

You're so haunted by other people's futures that you forget, the only future you cannot see is your own.

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

I am a fierce supporter of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and gay rights in this country.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice.

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

One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.

No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

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.

Parenthood changes your outlook on life. Makes you realize what things are important. The responsibility is huge. Just to have that responsibility in your hands is a little frightening, but it's exciting at the same time.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

Pominville is going to have to open a planned parenthood center!

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