23 quotes about having kids that will make you feel better about parenting
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Parenting: it's thankless, relentless and sleepless. Here's 23 quotes about having kids that will make you feel better about being a parent.
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There are three terrible ages of childhood - one to ten, ten to twenty and twenty to thirty.
Cleveland Amory
Photo by ChrisGoldNY
Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
Photo by caiteesmith photography.
If you have never been hated by your child,
you have never been a parent.
Bette Davis
Photo by libertygrace0
Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
Chris Cleave
Photo by donnierayjones
Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore,
And that’s what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash
Photo by KDL Photography | Lookin Cyril
A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
Jerry Seinfield
Photo by Lunchbox Photography
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.
David Frost
Photo by Cristiano de Jesus
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P Jones
Photo by Hammonton Photography
Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists.
You’ll realise this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.
Ray Romano
Photo by mpisti
Parents are not interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.
Bill Cosby
Photo by Phineas H
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
Peter De Vries
Photo by DanielJames
At some point we run out of lyrics to the lullabies and start singing
“Hush little baby, don’t be contrary,
Mama’s gonna have a coronary”
Barbara Kingsolver
Photo by JerryLai0208
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot
Photo by Libertinus
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
Ed Asner
Photo by Hammonton Photography
Being a parent is wanting to hug and strangle your kid at the same time.
Bill Watterson
Photo by horizontal.integration
Youth is a time of rapid changes. Between the ages of twelve and seventeen, a parent can age thirty years.
Sam Levenson
Photo by 2002ttorry
Tired is the new black.
Amy Poehler
Photo by John-Morgan
There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother’s age.
Dr Spock
Photo by swambo
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller
Photo by bark
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
Barbara Kingsolver.
Photo by francescopratese
