Top 100 Quotes About Parenthood
#2. Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words 'to father' have such a different meaning from the words 'to mother'.
Claire Fuller
#3. It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?
Robin Epstein
#4. My daughter asked me what it's like to have children ... So I followed her to the washroom every time she went and asked her questions through the door until she lost her S#!T ...
Tanya Masse
#6. Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world,
Meg Cabot
#7. Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.
Rufus Sewell
#8. Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat predictable flow and offer relatively short-term feedback. This leads to internal comparisons to the improvisational nature of parenting
Jennifer Senior
#9. Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.
Richard Brookhiser
#10. An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time, child psychologists kept coming up with new responsibilities for parents that seemed to fall to the mother alone.
Elisabeth Badinter
#11. How much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.
Jan Struther
#12. Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.
Jonathan V. Last
#13. Thank you Planned Parenthood and God bless you.
Barack Obama
#14. The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!
Anna Silk
#15. And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
Sydney J. Harris
#16. We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child.
Doris Lessing
#18. Oh, the future. I see." A shadow fell over the doctor's face. "You're wondering if your son will get cancer? Or be hit by a car? Or be bipolar? Or have autism? Or drug problems? I don't know, I'm not a psychic. Welcome to parenthood.
Miranda July
#20. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' ...
Christopher Hitchens
#21. 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.
Courtney Milan
#22. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.
Kelly Corrigan
#23. I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.
Paula Hawkins
#24. The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the wind
Ryokan
#25. 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.
Robbie Williams
#26. If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me.
Beth Moore
#27. I'm your father. That's the great privilege of parenthood; we can comment on whatever we want.
Ilona Andrews
#28. That's what parenthood was about, wasn't it? Slowly understanding your child less and less until she wasn't yours anymore but herself.
Megan Abbott
#29. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#30. The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
Abraham Lincoln
#31. Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
Andrew Solomon
#32. Parenthood is the only job that gets progressively harder every single year, and you never, ever, ever get a raise.
Emma Straub
#33. There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
Sheri L. Dew
#34. Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
Rachel Cusk
#35. This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.
Pearl S. Buck
#36. The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.
Ezra Taft Benson
#37. While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.
Juan Williams
#38. When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
Bill Gates
#39. When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.
Suzanne Finnamore
#40. I have never compromised on academics and the one thing that I insist on is good grades, even though I am a relaxed and indulgent parent in most other things.
Preeti Shenoy
#41. An admirable quality of parenthood is the ability to respect your kid's privacy.
Susane Colasanti
#42. No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#43. I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.
Robin Beth Schaer
#44. The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.
Jennifer Senior
#45. Without you there would be no me.
I am everything reflected in your eyes.
I am everything approved by your smile.
I am everything born of your guidance.
I am me only because of you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#46. I have friends and supporters in the Human Rights Fund and Planned Parenthood. Hillary Clinton has been around there for a very, very long time. Some of these groups are, in fact, part of the establishment.
Bernie Sanders
#47. My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
Kathryn Lasky
#48. He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.
Evelyn Waugh
#49. A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.
Bill Mauldin
#50. Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy.
Hermann Hesse
#51. The author stipulates that while television lately background noise for a child, it tends to shift to the foreground for the adult. The adult pays enough attention to the media attention is paid to the child.
Gary Chapman
#52. The Child is the Alpha and the Omega of a parent's happiness.
Amit Abraham
#53. Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
Seth Adam Smith
#54. What was I waiting for with regards to the sea-soaked woman laughing in front of me? What would I tell myself if I didn't watch her grow gorgeously ripe with our baby? If we didn't become sleep-deprived and snappy with each other as we tried to navigate the stormy seas of parenthood together.
Dorothy Koomson
#55. 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.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#56. It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#58. In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.
Wilferd Peterson
#59. Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
Jonathan Sacks
#60. What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?
Beth Moore
#61. If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
#62. These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own.
Gwen Moore
#63. There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries
#64. Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.
E.W. Jackson
#65. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.
Margaret Sanger
#66. She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.
Philip Zaleski
#67. Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it.
Leslie A. Gordon
#68. Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#69. Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.
Kenneth Oppel
#70. At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.
Kelly Corrigan
#71. ... hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#72. But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
Ramez Naam
#73. Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Felicity Huffman
#75. although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]
Linda Lantieri
#76. But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen.
-Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue
Ariel Levy
#77. No one has ever said to me 'go home and make a baby.' I have been told several times to go to Planned Parenthood and make the baby go away. Happy Hannukah.
Chelsea Handler
#78. 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.
Mark Deklin
#79. It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.
Eric Cantor
#80. I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)
John F. Kennedy
#81. The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.
Dolly Parton
#82. That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but because of the gift. Father doesn't stay with Mother because she is good for him, but rather because together they can do good for us, and for many others.
Orson Scott Card
#83. I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.
Ron Paul
#84. If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.
Hillary Clinton
#85. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
Pat Conroy
#86. PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK ... Like a YO YO!!
Tanya Masse
#87. Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.
Beth Moore
#88. it's helpful to focus your child's attention on the present moment by deciding together on one thing you may particularly look for.
Linda Lantieri
#89. Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.
Jackie Speier
#90. I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
Philippa Gregory
#91. I understood that assisted conception was the antithesis of careless, spontaneous or unplanned parenthood, that it was the most deliberate of decisions, undertaken only by women who were serious and dedicated in their quest to be mothers.
Gail Honeyman
#92. There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
Pat Conroy
#93. When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#94. Love had still seemed like such a paltry thing in the face of all my doubts then, much the way it felt now. David had worries my love couldn't touch, fears my love couldn't easily dispel. My love seemed like a well-worn blanket instead of the titanium shield I needed.
Andrea Lochen
#95. Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we'd received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict.
Andrew Solomon
#96. I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
Frances O'Grady
#97. He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.
Ransom Riggs
#98. The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have gone from employees of the parents to the bosses of the parents.
Jennifer Senior
#99. In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War.
Bill Bryson
#100. What about your mom?" "She offered to take me to Planned Parenthood to get the Pill and told me to make Adam get tested for various diseases. In the meantime, she ordered me to buy condoms now. She even gave me ten bucks to start my supply.
Gayle Forman
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