#parenthood

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #parenthood




Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.


Marcelene Cox


#children #glory #grandeur #just #leaves

When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.


Suzanne Finnamore


#pregnancy #change

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.


Erma Bombeck


#carpeting #children #courage #housekeeping #parenthood

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.


James Lee Burke


#heartbreak #parenthood #courage

Where did the bonds of maternity end? All children grew up, changed, became somebody else. Parents who trembled that they might lose a gap-toothed toddler to some terrible accident ended up losing him anyway, always, to time. The toddlers died, after all, and what was left was a bond with another adult, who had once been the beloved child.


Nancy Kress


#change

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.


Rob Lowe


#mentoring #parenthood #training #education

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.


Paul Asay


#fatherhood #inspiration #parenthood #rolemodeling #inspirational

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?


John Taylor Gatto


#education #environment #parenthood #parenting #resources

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.


Ana Monnar


#parenthood #parenting #quote #life

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#children #future #parenthood #parenting #parenting