“Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.” — Tom Swyers Copy Share Image
“The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.” — Eileen Kennedy-Moore Copy Share Image
“Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“But I am never really without you, You're on my computer, in my briefcase, at my desk, around my neck and on… — Pamela Hall Copy Share Image
“The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.” — Nancy Arroyo Ruffin Copy Share Image
“Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep… — Wally Lamb We Are Water Copy Share Image
“Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Give people room to be what God created them to be, don't force them to fit into your own mold” — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“Mr. Beecher used to say that the first thing for a man to do, if he would succeed in life, was to… — John C. Carlile Copy Share Image
“Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts… — April Paine Copy Share Image
“I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“The Easter egg which was not found contained a letter from the hen who laid it, saying "Fuck your kids, What about… — Shay Caroline Copy Share Image
“Wart meets Merlin for the first time – only for Merlin, who lives backwards, it's the last time. The old wizard weeps… — Philip Womack Copy Share Image
“More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors.… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“You know, nothing is stronger than blood bonds. What else is the reason for the success of life insurance policies? Why bother… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“But maybe it was only that Father was thinking that he must arrive in Memphis with the entire family household intact if… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
“There is more to a boy than what his mother sees. There is more to a boy then what his father dreams.… — Ben Behunin Copy Share Image
“Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to… — Connie Porter Copy Share Image
“Children are constantly focused on their parents and will mirror them. Therefore, what they experience in the home will be crucial for… — Iben Dissing Sandahl Copy Share Image
“Kids don’t act right. Sure it’s embarrassing when it happens but any reasonable person won’t fault a parent when a kid throws… — Aaron Blaylock Copy Share Image
“Mom’s a hypochondriac, too, so the best part was that every week she would get the disease that the medical shows were… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
“It’s funny… when you’re young you spend your life trying to convince yourself you’re not like your parents. And then, every now… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxieties about becoming a parent…… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Mothers are artists, in their way, wouldn’t you say? They’re like symphony conductors of entire lives. They’re painters or sculptors. And not… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
“Did my father talk to me? It's true, he didn't say a lot to me, but I knew what had to be… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Isn’t that an odd thing for a parent to wish for a child? That he would be less than what he is?” — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
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