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.