Parenting Quotes and Sayings
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I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies. June Allyson
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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. Russell Baker
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A mother who is really a mother is never free. Honore de Balzac
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I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job. Roseanne Barr
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Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being. Evan Bayh
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Henry Ward Beecher
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My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. Roberto Benigni
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Allan Bloom
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Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. John Boehner
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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Erma Bombeck
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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. Susie Bright
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Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out. Matthew Broderick
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha
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It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad. Abigail Van Buren
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. Miguel de Cervantes
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A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. Frank Howard Clark
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I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. Jill Clayburgh
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I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play. Beverly Cleary
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If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. Barbara Colorose
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Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. Robbie Coltrane
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. Robert Cormier
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No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. Marcelene Cox
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It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei. Cindy Crawford
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Quentin Crisp
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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. Phyllis Diller
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There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. Anthony Edwards
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Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. Bob Filner
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Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. David Frost
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That's my ideal day, time with my boys. Kenny G
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Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. James Gandolfini
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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. Arnold H. Glasow
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We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? Ellen Goodman
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. Patricia Heaton
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh
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What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. Marjorie Holmes
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My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. Isabelle Huppert
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. Bruce Jenner
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My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. John H. Johnson
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Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. Lynn Johnston
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My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life. Marion Jones
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. John F. Kennedy
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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. Coretta Scott King
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. Doug Larson
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Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings. Kelly LeBrock
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Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. Miriam Makeba
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy. Kamisese Mara
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The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears. Phil McGraw
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I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. Liza Minelli
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Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy. Liam Neeson
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. Olivia Newton-John
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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. Robert Orben
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There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom. Marie Osmond
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Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies. Clive Owen
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Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. Ryan Phillippe
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Plato
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I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. Rita Rudner
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Education, like neurosis, begins at home. Milton R. Sapirstein
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We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. John Sculley
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You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship. Connie Sellecca
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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. Norma Shearer
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I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. Brooke Shields
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There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. Andrew Shue
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We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. Roy L. Smith
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. Benjamin Spock
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. Gloria Steinem
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The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. Meryl Streep
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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. Anne Sullivan
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll
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Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. Ron Taffel
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Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. Alan Thicke
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Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. Todd Tiahrt
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The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. Todd Tiahrt
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Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. Christy Turlington
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I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. Tina Turner
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. Voltaire
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We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free. John Walters
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I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real. Reese Witherspoon
