Parents Quotes

I write to get ideas out of my head

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

I have learned that we must rediscover the inherent call to wholeness in the experience of being a mother or a father. When I find myself missing my desert and mountain tops I have to be brought back to earth and realize that my son’s smiles, tears, games and little crises are as significant as the big revelations or insights in the overall plan of things.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

My parents are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh...

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.