Quotes of Parental - somelinesforyou

“ Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. ”

- Robin G. Collingwood

“ 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. ”

- Marcelene Cox

“ There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. ”

- Ellen Goodman

“ Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. ”

- Alvin Toffler

“ A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ It might sound a paradoxical thing to say — for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time — but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence… ”

- Midge Decter

“ Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed… ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others. ”

- Elizabeth Fishel
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