Parenthood Quotes
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![Rodney Dangerfield](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208829061i/78470._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.”
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![C. JoyBell C.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612358741i/4114218._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”
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![Debra Ginsberg](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1269621264i/27399.jpg)
“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”
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![Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206830616i/219075._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
― Great Speeches
― Great Speeches
![Dorothy Parker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188820565i/24956._UY200_CR39,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
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![Richard Dawkins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1377030297i/1194._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
![Aaron Lauritsen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461964160i/14928147._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
![Marisa de los Santos](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1519324345i/66631._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.”
― Love Walked In
― Love Walked In
![Elizabeth Gaskell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1223499865i/1413437._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”
― North and South
― North and South
![Gillian Flynn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1232123231i/2383._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
![Aaron Lauritsen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461964160i/14928147._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
![Erma Bombeck](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208791191i/11882._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ”
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![P.J. O'Rourke](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1445348680i/14549850._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”
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![Martin Luther](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209357172i/29874._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg)
“Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper.”
― The Sermons Of Martin Luther
― The Sermons Of Martin Luther
![Michel Houellebecq](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1587317406i/32878._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies. They could play, dance, love, and multiply their pleasures. They could leave a party, in the early hours of the morning, in the company of sexual partners they had chosen, and contemplate the dreary line of employees going to work. They were the salt of the earth, and everything was given to them, everything was permitted for them, everything was possible. Later on, having started a family, having entered the adult world, they would be introduced to worry, work, responsibility, and the difficulties of existence; they would have to pay taxes, submit themselves to administrative formalities while ceaselessly bearing witness--powerless and shame-filled--to the irreversible degradation of their own bodies, which would be slow at first, then increasingly rapid; above all, they would have to look after children, mortal enemies, in their own homes, they would have to pamper them, feed them, worry about their illnesses, provide the means for their education and their pleasure, and unlike in the world of animals, this would last not just for a season, they would remain slaves of their offspring always, the time of joy was well and truly over for them, they would have to continue to suffer until the end, in pain and with increasing health problems, until they were no longer good for anything and were definitively thrown into the rubbish heap, cumbersome and useless. In return, their children would not be at all grateful, on the contrary their efforts, however strenuous, would never be considered enough, they would, until the bitter end, be considered guilty because of the simple fact of being parents. From this sad life, marked by shame, all joy would be pitilessly banished. When they wanted to draw near to young people's bodies, they would be chased away, rejected, ridiculed, insulted, and, more and more often nowadays, imprisoned. The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young, and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer. This was the true meaning of solidarity between generations; it was a pure and simple holocaust of each generation in favor of the one that replaced it, a cruel, prolonged holocaust that brought with it no consolation, no comfort, nor any material or emotional compensation.”
― The Possibility of an Island
― The Possibility of an Island
![Richelle E. Goodrich](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1714753927i/5082833._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Without you there would be no me.
I am everything reflected in your eyes.
I am everything approved by your smile.
I am everything born of your guidance.
I am me only because of you.”
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
I am everything reflected in your eyes.
I am everything approved by your smile.
I am everything born of your guidance.
I am me only because of you.”
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
![Aaron Lauritsen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461964160i/14928147._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
![Gustave Flaubert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651461896i/1461._UX200_CR0,10,200,200_.jpg)
“He seriously thought that there is less harm in killing a man than producing a child: in the first case you are relieving someone of life, not his whole life but a half or a quarter or a hundredth part of that existence that is going to finish, that would finish without you; but as for the second, he would say, are you not responsible to him for all the tears he will shed, from the cradle to the grave? Without you he would never have been born, and why is he born? For your amusement, not for his, that’s for sure; to carry your name, the name of a fool, I’ll be bound – you may as well write that name on some wall; why do you need a man to bear the burden of three or four letters?”
― November
― November
![Pat Conroy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1342711176i/6942._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.”
― The Prince of Tides
― The Prince of Tides
![Aaron Lauritsen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461964160i/14928147._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
![Gillian Flynn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1232123231i/2383._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
![George Eliot](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596202587i/173._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.”
― Adam Bede
― Adam Bede
![Aaron Lauritsen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461964160i/14928147._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”
~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
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~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”
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![Martin Luther](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209357172i/29874._UX200_CR0,7,200,200_.jpg)
“In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.”
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![Aaron Lauritsen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461964160i/14928147._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
![Christopher Moore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1460399391i/16218._UY200_CR10,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.”
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![Aaron Lauritsen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461964160i/14928147._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
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