458 quotes found
“You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you?”
“When coming to making kids: Size doesnt count, its sperm count that counts.”
“Most parents are not really supportive because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they support their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures in the eyes of the...”
“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”
“And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the o...”
“Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishin...”
“I couldnt imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldnt imagine having a child to leave.”
“Reading to small children is a specialty.”
“Train up a child in such a way she or he should go even when she or he is old she or he will not depart' Proverb ”
“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.”
“Every person will become three time child in their life.One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.It's never be gone.”
“They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. "What on earth will you be doing with something so large?" said Mum."I shall live in it with my servants, of co...”
“He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, a...”
“Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is par...”
“There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dreams, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the ...”
“The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding...”
“All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things.”
“The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this way it is taught that its security in life depends on its parents (and, subsequen...”
“As time flies, its the kid who becomes his parents' shadow.”
“She can look at you and make you feel like youre the only one in the world. Even if its not true, she can make you feel that way. And with her child, it would be true. She would look at her child f...”
