Ivan Turgenev Quotes

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

I got four kids.

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

When you have girl children they torture you!

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

I think all parents have a double life.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.