Parenting Quote by Vladimir Nabokov Download Open image ““plage, various seaside chairs and stools supported the parents”” — Vladimir Nabokov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parenting
“This was Josie’s preferred method of parenting: go someplace like this, with grand scale and much to be discovered, and watch your children wander… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Why should a family with eight rambunctious children bother owning anything that could be damaged? They sat on the arms of their mother's overstuffed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
“An armchair is always an armchair, to the modern child, never a ship, never a desert island. The pattern on the wall are patterns;… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
“The children mingled with the adults, and spoke and were spoken to. Children in these families, at the end of the nineteenth century, were… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.” — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“The children were sent to bed. Some went submissively; others with shrieks and protests as they were dragged away. They had been permitted to… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Parents: Perfecting ways to humiliate their children since the dawn of time.” — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
“The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ami azt illeti, Vannak kezdtek nagyon tetszeni a fák is, a csodák is meg az Adák is.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
“As members of the Church, there are things you cannot do. For one, you cannot take a Las Vegas-style vacation. I do not know… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
