“My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.”
Others on Parenting
Jojo Moyes
2 quotes“Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers,' he said. 'I think that’s kind of the point of them.”
Khalil Gibran
2 quotes“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
Marianne Williamson
2 quotes“There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise o...”
Barbara Kingsolver
2 quotes“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't b...”
Gordon B. Hinckley
2 quotes“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does co...”
Jodi Picoult
2 quotes“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”
Robert Heinlein
1 quote“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
Carl Jung
1 quote“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived...”
John Updike
1 quote“Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps...”
Somerset Maugham
1 quote“A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.”
Darwin
1 quote“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”
Charles R. Swindoll
1 quote“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”