parenting Quotes

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.