
Top 32 Welcome To Parenthood Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me.
Beth Moore
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.
Kelly Corrigan
#7. 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
#8. The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the wind
Ryokan
#9. 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
#11. I'm your father. That's the great privilege of parenthood; we can comment on whatever we want.
Ilona Andrews
#12. 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
#13. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#14. The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
Abraham Lincoln
#15. Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
Andrew Solomon
#16. Parenthood is the only job that gets progressively harder every single year, and you never, ever, ever get a raise.
Emma Straub
#18. We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child.
Doris Lessing
#19. 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
#20. The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!
Anna Silk
#21. Thank you Planned Parenthood and God bless you.
Barack Obama
#22. 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
#23. How much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.
Jan Struther
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world,
Meg Cabot
#30. 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
#31. 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
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