673 Quotes About Parenthood

- Mas você ficaria à vontade passando a noite toda longe do pobre menino? - Sim; se o pai pode fazê-lo, por que eu não poderia?

We gotta go, gotta get the job done,Gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my son

Children could vanish without trace, but not parents.

Their hearts were wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings ... [426]

I didn’t know before that when parents talked about 'checking on' their children, they meant checking to make sure they weren’t dead. And when they talked about their love for their children, maybe that’s what they meant too. It was love but keener, with sharper edges, softer undersides. It was love wrapped up with desperate terror, inextricable.

I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is.

In these days it never came to Wang the Tiger's mind that his son's dreams might not be his own and he lived for the spring.

You don't see how it is for some parents. Not only must they lose their children, they must lose them to things they don't understand.

There is no preparing for parenthood; only research as a form of prayer and manic speculation.