Parents Quotes

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

That’s sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

It does not always follow that good men are good fathers.

Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.

It’s helpful to imagine your relationship with him or her as a business relationship rather than a personal one. Just as you wouldn’t share that you’re feeling fat, ugly, and depressed with a client or tell her that you’ve just met the love of your life and you’ve never been happier, these thoughts and feelings should be kept to yourself and not shared with your ex. Finally, as in any good business relationship, be honest and prepared to deliver what you promise.

Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.

The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.