Children Quote by Fredrik Backman

“No one ever said life was going to be easy.” Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No…

— Fredrik Backman

“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,”

— Fredrik Backman

“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait…

— Lisa See

“That is the worst thing about being a parent,” she said, as if I were one too. “You’re meant to be this serene, all-knowing,…

— Jojo Moyes

“little children never get frozen by their selfishness. Like the disciples, they come just as they are, totally self-absorbed. They seldom get it right.…

— Paul Miller

“There is no such thing as a carefree childhood, only a childhood that shifts the burden of care onto someone else. [Mom] is that…

— Steve Rushin

“Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once.…

— Jill Smokler

“You know before you have kids, people would tell you—they change everything. That life is so much better with them. That it’s impossible to…

— Amanda A. Allen

“Don’t trouble yourself with the woes of life, for they will only prevent you from giving all of yourself to others. A child needs…

— Dannika Dark

“I had no room for a child. My lifestyle barely yielded to include a spouse. How could I spare the time for another little…

— Love Belvin

“If they’re letting her cry anyway, I don’t really see the point of the baby monitor, but that’s one of those questions I’ve learned…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.”

— Jarod Kintz