Quotes About Parenting

You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat.

The way many parents behave, it is no wonder so many people feel Nature is capricious.

Many women get married to practice taking care of a baby before having one of their own.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.

Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

You love your children. It's your one redeeming quality; that and your cheekbones.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Queen Visenya put a sword into her son's hand when he was three. Supposedly the first thing he did with the blade was butcher one of the castle cats.

Theon swept his cloak off its peg and over his shoulders. "Fathers are like that," he admitted as he pinned the folds with a silver clasp. "Tell him he should be pleased. As many times as I've fucked you, you're likely with child. It's not every man who has the honor of raising a king's bastard.

Unless you relish the notion of having a one-armed dwarf for a son …

As angry as he was, his father could not help but laugh. 'You're not my son,' he told Bran when they fetched him down, 'you're a squirrel. So be it. If you must climb, then climb, but try not to let your mother see you.

You would abandon Tommen." "Tommen has his mother." Ser Kevan's green eyes met her own, unblinking. A last drop of wine trembled wet and red beneath his chin, and finally fell. "Aye," he added softly, after a pause, "and his father too, I think.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

Parents try so hard to create moments their children will remember when they're grown, and it rarely works out the way they expected.

My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.

It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!' 'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry.

Con frecuencia los padres no se dan cuenta del impacto que tiene sobre sus hijos lo que dicen o hacen. Años más tarde, los adultos recuerdan de manera vívida el efecto que tuvo sobre ellos algún aspecto de la conducta de sus padres. De hecho, es posible que estén haciendo algunas de las mismas cosas con sus propios hijos sin que logren percatarse de ello.