Nothing’s scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It’s the worst thing for a parent.
– Kenneth Oppel
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- None of us gets to choose how we’re born, it’s what we make of ourselves afterwards. – Kenneth Oppel
- 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
- 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
- The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! – Kenneth Oppel
- You want to know what I want? I’m sick of being a guinea pig. I’m sick, but I’m never f*cking sick enough for this family. – Jodi Picoult
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith…it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine. – Holly Ordway
- 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
- Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child’s bed. – Stephen King
- 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
- You were born to dream. You were born to strive. You were born to conquer. You were born to rise. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Born to love, Born to lead.Born to shine, Born to succeed. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Newly-born books are like birds-¦ they shouldn’t be kicked out of the nest until they’re capable of flying. Wendy Anne Darling 5-1-15 – Wendy Anne Darling
- Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked – Kat Howard
- 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
- 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
- Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you. – Morrissey
- He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. – James Joyce
- I’m sick of the images trapped in my headI’m sick of being preoccupied with the dead – JessicaLynn Barbour
- We spend the first half of our lives making ourselves sick, and the second half of our lives trying to make ourselves un-sick.- -“ Kevin W. Reese – Kevin W Reese
- A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. – Ben Okri
- To conform to a sick society is to become sick. – Richard J Foster
- sick of it whatever it’s called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what’s here – Ikkyu
- There’s only one thing worse than being sick…and that’s being sick and poor. – Lou Silluzio
- I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet. – Henry V ONeil
- Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can’t even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick. – Meg Cabot
- Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up. – Lacey Sturm
- When you’re sick, you can never get your mind straight. But if you’re passionate and sick, you’ll find a way to write down something. – BA Gabrielle
- You are a sick, sick man,- I told him.-œThank you,- Ben replied, looking modest. – Patricia Briggs
- From anonymous bullying to anonymous murder for hire, the Internet had something for every sick taste. – Kenneth Eade
- Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free. – Shannon Wiersbitzky