parenting Quotes

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.