The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet… — Robert Breault Copy Share
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements? — Robert Breault Copy Share
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. — Robert Breault Copy Share
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. — Robert Breault Copy Share
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. — Robert Breault Copy Share
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe. — Robert Breault Copy Share
The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even. — Robert Breault Copy Share
Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a… — Robert Breault Copy Share
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all. — Robert Breault Copy Share
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. — Robert Breault Copy Share
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter. — Robert Breault Copy Share
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. — Robert Breault Copy Share
