Parenthood Quotes
451 quotes
"What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife."
"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves."
"Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong."
"In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children."
"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?"
"Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be."
"Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years."
"The Mother Thing makes our world."
"College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination."
"I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!"
"Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone."
"Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind."
"If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA."
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
"No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence..."
"The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."
"Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive"
"True friends don't come with conditions."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite."
"Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Without struggle, success has no value."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"There is no such thing as loving a child too much."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there."
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way"
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
"When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)"
"One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers."
"Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience."
"Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood."
"Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon."
"There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example."
"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?"
"Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world."
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
"John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence."
Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
"Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children."
Matt Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church
"My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm."
"Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child’s mind."
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
"Let your child see you doing a good deed instead of you telling him or her to do it, and the little child shall one day grow up to become a real kind human being."
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
"... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance."
D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
"Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home."
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