Quotes of Parenthood - somelinesforyou

“ Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ”

- Unknown

“ Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. ”

- Alvin Toffler

“ There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ”

- Anonymous

“ A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! ”

- Philip Roth

“ Mother is the name for God on the lips and in the hearts of little children. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. ”

- Marilyn Manson

“ No such thing as a man willing to be honest — that would be like a blind man willing to see. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Your children will become who you are; so be who you want them to be. ”

- Unknown

“ Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ Welcome to parenthood. Now half your conversations will be about poo. ”

- Unknown

“ Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills. ”

- Stephen King

“ Two people who know they do not understand each other,Breeding children whom they do not understandAnd who will never understand them. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ The trouble with the family is that children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood. ”

- Evan Esar

“ I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. ”

- Billy Joel

“ The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. ”

- Mel Lazarus

“ Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. ”

- Lydia H. Sigourney

“ My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have. ”

- John Holt

“ Who doesn't desire his father's death? ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it. ”

- Jean Kerr

“ Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. ”

- Bible

“ Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway. ”

- Unknown

“ A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ”

- Tenneva Jordan

“ To become a father is not difficult, but to be a father is. ”

- Unknown
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