I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn’t do what I wanted, I’d kill him.
– Katharine Hepburn
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- Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother. – Katharine Hepburn
- Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child’s needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. – Penelope Ward
- A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent. – Gary Edward Gedall
- Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. – Katharine Hepburn
- If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. – Katharine Hepburn
- If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. – Katharine Hepburn
- I am an atheist and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people. – Katharine Hepburn
- If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased – Katharine Hepburn
- If you always do what interests you,at least one person is pleased. – Katharine Hepburn
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world. – Cristina Henriquez
- Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace? – Ann Voskamp
- A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY – Roald Dahl
- It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
- This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. – Dorothy Parker
- You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. – Michael Cunningham
- If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown,give him support. – Osho
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them. – Neil Gaiman
- I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. – Becca Fitzpatrick
- Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent. – Clifford Cohen
- If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child. – John SC Abbott
- There’s the parent you want and the parent you have. – Karen Harrington
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent! – Rossana Condoleo
- A philanderer cannot be a parent – a parent cannot be a philanderer. – Abhijit Naskar
- Sometimes being a good parent is admitting that you weren’t a perfect parent. – Colleen Ferrary Bader
- I’m the poster child for Sister-Zoned. My face pops up on so many pseudo family trees, I could start my own forest. – Marilyn A Hepburn
- Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill. – Sylvia Plath
- Family can’t understand feeling of a child by giving money to him/her.you can understand the child feeling by talking with him/her – Sher E Yazdan
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- She wanted to hug him and at the same time she kind of wanted to slap him. – Liane Moriarty
- I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him. – Kiera C
- one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill. – Patricia Highsmith
- What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! – Leo Tolstoy
- Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark. – Welcome to Nightvale
- In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. – Harrison Scott Key
- Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord. – George RR Martin