Parenting Quotes

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,

but the parent of all others.

My uncle's dying wish

he wanted me on his lap.

He was in the electric chair.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot,

but I always found them.

On Halloween,

the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

The vegetable life does not content

itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed,

but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that,

if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves,

that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity;

that, at least one may replace the parent.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say,

what your teachers say,

what society says,

but to figure out what your heart,

calling is and to be led by that.

My parents were both born in Virginia,

of undistinguished families

second families,

perhaps I should say.

Because parents have power over children.

They feel they have to do what their parents say.

But the love of money is the root of all evil.

And this is a sweet child.

And to see him turn like this,

this isn't him.

This is not him.