If you want your daughter to be great, you have to be even a greater father for her.
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Quotes tagged ‘Parenthood’
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
It's strange to have a creation out there. A deeply mutated version of yourself, running loose and screwing everything up... I wonder if this is how parents feel.
— Melissa Rosenberg, Daniel Cerone, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
Henry: I warned you, Shawn, fire fighters are trouble. I did everything in my power to keep you off of the pole! Shawn: And you succeeded, Dad... in every conceivable way.
Kudos on the childrearing. Let me know how the therapy goes.
Steve, I'm very disappointed that you used that language with your mother. That being said, I'm more excited for dinner than I have been in years.
Mother, I come bearing a gift. I'll give you a hint: it's in my diaper and it's not a toaster.
Stu: There's nothing wrong with Tommy. Didi: How can you say that? Drawing on the walls proves that he cannot find a constructive outlet for his repressed, social anxieties. Stu: Deed, he's a year old!
— Arlene Klasky, Gabor Csupo, Stu Pickles, Jack Riley, imdb.com
Parenting is pretending you know what you're talking about, then jamming it down their throat!
— Becky Mann, Audra Sielaff, David Hornsby, Mac, Rob McElhenney, imdb.com
Egalitarian parenting means two people share all of the responsibilities of parenting equally. That means there is no default parent. That also means that one parent is not assumed to be the correct parent for certain tasks based on their gender.
No one owes you a preemptive apology just because you’re a control freak. You aren’t always in control, like it or not.
Everyone’s parents have fucked them up in one way or another. This is part of the natural order. It’s the circle of life. Mothers are people—not angels from heaven or Ex Machina error-free service bots. Just because they pushed you out of their vaginal canals does not mean they have all (or any) of…
Kids are the only thing that matter. They’re the only reason for this whole man-woman drama.
You know, I've learned that, in the short time I've had the privilege of being a dad... it heals wounds, just being there for your kid.
— Erica Messer, Kirsten Vangsness, David Rossi, Joe Mantegna, imdb.com
Masturbating is important, you know? You appreciate it more when you’re a parent. I look forward to masturbating more than sex. You know why? ‘Cause I know I’m gonna treat me right.
It's painful, raising children. We spend our lives teaching them to be strong, to be independent. Not realizing that once we have achieved that they are no longer in our control.
— Lauren Schmidt, Douglas Petrie, Nobu Yoshioka, Peter Shinkoda, imdb.com
When you make a commitment to a child, you got to stick to it.
— Jas Waters, Kay Oyegun, Randall Pearson, Sterling K. Brown, imdb.com
Some people think the scariest part is coming to the hospital to have the baby. The scariest part is leaving the hospital with the baby.
— Dan Fogelman, Kay Oyegun, Jack Pearson, Milo Ventimiglia, imdb.com
The kids are gonna be fine. We’ve shown them a healthy marriage. This is just gonna be a blip on their radar years from now. We’re their parents, Bec. We do the best we can. But at the end of the day what happens to them, how they turn out, that’s bigger than us. Sometimes they’ll make good decision…
— Dan Fogelman, Kay Oyegun, Elizabeth Berger, Isaac Aptaker, Jack, Milo Ventimiglia, imdb.com
The more people you love, the weaker you are. You'll do things for them that you know you shouldn't do. You'll act the fool to make them happy, to keep them safe. Love no one but your children.
— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Cersei Lannister, Lena Headey, imdb.com