Parenting Fail Quotes

#1. What's a dick?" Parenting fail number five-hundred-and-eighty-two of today. "Nothing, babe. I said tick. A tick is a bug." "So you called that person a bug?" "Yup. A big bug.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#2. Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#3. Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.

Dolph Lundgren

#5. About being brave", she explained at the question on his face. "I liked what you were saying. And it seems to me... it seems to me that it takes just as much courage to fight windmills as it does to fight the real giants or the monsters or whatever it was in the story.

Noelle Adams

#6. I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.

Audre Lorde

#7. Too many parents fail to understand that there is a difference between fitting in and being liked, that there is a difference between being "normal" and being happy. High school is temporary. Family is not.

Alexandra Robbins

#8. I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. We need to substitute 'trier' for failure. The word 'fail' is closely related to the word fall. A child taking his first step falls, cries and then tries again. Why does he try again? Because he wants to, but does not, know the meaning of failure.

Anup Kochhar

#10. They think I am glass. But I am not. I am not delicate. I am stone. If they want to break me, they will have a hard time of it. I am unbreakable.

Jennifer Ellision

#11. If he once failed as a father, it was a noble fail.

Alysia Abbott

#12. The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

Wes Fesler

#13. It still amazes me that we insist on teaching algebra to all students when only about 20 percent will ever use it and fail to teach anything about parenting when the vast majority of our students will become parents.

Nel Noddings

#14. Casting is 65 percent of directing.

John Frankenheimer

#15. We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

Dean Koontz

#16. Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God.

Anne Truitt

#17. Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

Louisa May Alcott

#18. You should get some Rodan and Fields. The amp roller works wonders for scarring.

Colleen Hoover

#19. The best predictor of success is a sense of resiliency, grit, capacity to fail and get up. If you're prevented from feeling discomfort of failure, you have no sense of how to handle those things at all.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#20. As a general rule when it's a city bus versus any biological creature, it's safe to bet on the bus.

John Scalzi

#21. Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son ... these aren't tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.

Dan Pearce

#22. Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#23. Wars, crimes, crashes, fires, floods - much of it the social and political equivalent of Adelaide's whooping cough - became the content of what people called the news of the day.

Neil Postman