parental hopes Quotes

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.

We have got to zero in on the fact that all of us, no matter where you live, want our kids' lives to be an upgrade over our own, and we would really like it if our kids could come back and live where we raised them.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.

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

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.

I get excited when people talk about Ananya and Ahaan. Whatever I couldn't do in my life, my children will.

Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?