Best 405 quotes in «parenthood quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Single parenthood is hard, but it's simple too. You just do everything yourself.

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag.

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

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

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90.

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

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

Terrorists cut people's heads off and that's what they do in the Planned Parenthood clinics.

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

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

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.

There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

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

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood.

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

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

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys unfold in this natural, measured way, growing up with at least one adult on the scene who can convincingly fake being all-powerful, omniscient, and unfailingly protective for a kid's first decade or so, providing an invaluable canopy of reachable stars and monsters that are comfortably make-believe.

(About parenthood and BDSM) Note that a difficulty in shifting gears, or a struggle to find the time, is not the same thing as an ontological either/or.

A good mother does not live only for her children. She always has some bond with other mothers, no matter what class, nationality or race they may be. All mothers have the same joys, the same sorrows, the same anxieties. All mothers think first of their child and of children.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that he was not allowed to cling him. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine.

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

Acknowledge and voice the positives LOUDER than the negatives.