Sports Parenting Quotes

#1. Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.

Dave Eggers

#2. Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn't come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

Kirk Mango

#3. Be fair. Play hard.

Dan Venezia

#4. How we approach each obstacle is relevant, whether we are on the field or not.

Colleen Mariotti

#5. Perhaps that wasn't the brightest parenting decision that I've made in the last ten years." -- (From TRADING MANNY, on letting my 7-year old son emulate Manny Ramirez)

Jim Gullo

#6. All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart.

Brigham Young

#7. Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

Carl Honore

#8. I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.

John Green

#9. I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science ... It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

Charles Darwin

#10. There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact ... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

Emily Carr

#11. We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all.

Miranda Hart

#12. I never killed anyone because it wasn't necessary. I could have killed.

Jose Mujica

#13. In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.

Shawn Amos

#14. I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

Catherine Helen Spence

#15. ...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all have our places.

Pete Dexter

#16. Alchemy should have no part in a Je'daii's experience. It is a dark force, arcane and dangerous. It has the power to upset balance. There are other ways.

Tim Lebbon