Quotes tagged ‘Parenting’

(147 total)

“Things change when you have children; your priorities change.”

“'Til I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'”

“Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.”

— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org

“Raising children is hard as a trans parent. They see right through me.”

— Chooxch, reddit.com

“Do you remember when you were a kid and whenever you cried, your parents would say, ‘I’ll give you a reason to cry!?" I always thought they were going to hit me, not that they were going to destroy the housing market 20 years later.”

— madazzahatter, reddit.com

“Procreation is not the only meaning of life, for then life in itself would become meaningless, and something which in itself is meaningless cannot be rendered meaningful merely by its perpetuation.”

— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com

“Sperm is ridiculously expensive: It’s about $700 a vial. I realized we’d spent $11,000 on sperm. I worked at a university at the time, surrounded by all these young men. I was just imagining that there was so much sperm around me, at all times of the day. All free! And I was going broke, buying thou…”

— Katie, thecut.com

“Statistically some of you will be single parents. Sorry, I have bad news for you, love dies and children live.”

— Laurie Kilmartin, prairiehome.org

“Tom was grounded by his parents They said he had no potential.”

— rusty_ballsack_42, reddit.com

“In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.”

— John Ruskin, amazon.com

“The father needs to affirm to the daughter his way of loving her. The acknowledgment can be in words or action but must be clear and not hidden; otherwise the message she receives is that she is unlovable or that love is something shameful, needing to be hidden.”

— Selma Nemer, amazon.com

“My 3-year-old didn’t get me a birthday present this year. Yeah. And I’ve known him for a couple years. So I’m not talking to him.”

— Jim Gaffigan, amazon.com

“When you have a little girl, as a parent you think, 'I should probably save for med school.' And when you have a little boy, you think, 'There's going to be a couple rounds of rehab.”

— Jim Gaffigan, npr.org

“I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”

— Morgan Freeman, wealthygorilla.com

“My father never told me what was right or wrong. He guided me, but most of the things I learned came from watching him. He never told me that I had to be humble, I just watched him [being humble himself] and I said, ‘This is how I want to be in life.'”

— Sachin Tendulkar, keepingscore.blogs.time.com

“A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.”

— banksy, amazon.com

“I didn’t treat my own youngsters like frail flowers, and I think no parent should.”

— Walt Disney, amazon.com

“The way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won’t keep kids out of trouble. But keeping their minds occupied will.”

— Walt Disney, amazon.com

“Sometimes the best approach for a parent is to give children choices.”

— Hilary Jacobs Hendel, biggestjob.com

“Why could the little boy not see his transgender mother? Because she was trans-parent!”

— cork_stopper, reddit.com