Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue. — Peter Gallagher Copy Share Image
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Being a parent means that everything in your house has been used as a toilet at least once... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Parents are supposed to protect you, but they seem to be really, really lousy at it.” — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls. (translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it's one of those jobs that is far more… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families… — Bernice Weissbourd Copy Share Image
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important,… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
These things you're gonna onto and, you're just a mere child who growing so wild you need protection, some love and direction. — Sugar Minott Copy Share Image
Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
When a child’s life is full of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, people and places, he will learn. When he feels safe… — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college,… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibly imagine. Keep… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
I want to go to Lapland and see Father Christmas, and now I've got a child, so I've got an excuse. Also,… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags… — Alicia Coppola Copy Share Image
Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
“This addition produces a two-by-two matrix: parenting is authoritative (high demand, high responsiveness), authoritarian (high demand, low responsiveness), permissive (low demand, high… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
