123 quotes found
“A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have ...”
“It takes a society to raise a generation.”
“Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. Its everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery B...”
“In parenting patience is the greatest virtue.”
“Console the failure, but nurture the hunger.”
“Having kids is not the same as being a parent.”
“Children are mirrors; they will always show you exactly what is going on inside of you. Each phase of their growth is an opportunity to heal your own pain, to go deeper inside yourself and become m...”
“But the smell of the hospital, the sting of those overhead lights in the night, the snippets of conversations I had overheard, stayed with me and marked the beginning of how I came to know what a b...”
“Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being...”
“PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK...Like a YO YO!!”
“You are almost never cool to your children.”
“Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.”
“Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?”
“That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day bi...”
“I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.”
“Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.”
“The sound of her breathing reminded me, as it so often did, of how vulnerable she was. And how vulnerable we were because of how much we loved her. The fear - that something could happen to her at ...”
“Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.”
“It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?”
“You are the closest I will ever come to magic.”
