Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. —P.J. O'Rourke More about this quote Tags: development knowledge certainty children Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. —Ogden Nash More about this quote Tags: ignorance children parents parenting ignoring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many of us have no long-range vision in much of our struggle. We think only of the moment, this time, this place, this circumstance. But think of the ten generations of children that inherit love, and their children, and theirs. … Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed? —Stephen Covey More about this quote Tags: love time future vision children struggle place Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. —Polly Berrien Berends More about this quote Tags: love discovery children parenting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent. —Elinor Goulding Smith More about this quote Tags: children parents blame environment fault Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart. —Mary Kay Blakely More about this quote Tags: children work feminism sexism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: career children death husband motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Tags: children parenthood feeding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house. —Louis C.K. More about this quote Tags: health children disease illness kids Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. —Doug Larson More about this quote Tags: children teenagers vengence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without your wounds where would your power be? The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken in the wheels of living. In love's service, only the wounded soldiers can serve. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Tags: love power children hurt angels wounds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures — our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity. —Thomas Moore More about this quote Tags: emotions intelligence children information care adults Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does. —Marcelene Cox More about this quote Tags: children control thriving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that. —Walt Disney More about this quote Tags: children childhood age forgetting growing up Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children. —Ray Romano More about this quote Tags: children parenthood sex parenting sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email