673 Quotes About Parenthood

The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

You are almost never cool to your children.

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.

Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in Christ.

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.