Best Quotes About Parenting (Top 56)
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When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.
Jim Butcher
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When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck
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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Maria Montessori
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
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Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
Bill Ayers
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
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Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby
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No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
Bill Cosby
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
Erma Bombeck
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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Wayne Dyer
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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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I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
Ed Asner
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke
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No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
Brad Meltzer
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There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck
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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
Ben Stein
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck
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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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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott
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Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.
Diane Keaton
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When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.
Fred Rogers
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck
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(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
Jodi Picoult
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Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.
Art Linkletter
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The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves - happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they have, and of all the opportunities that come their way. They will make light of any handicaps.
Benjamin Spock
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
Erma Bombeck
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
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You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Bill Cosby
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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Frank A. Clark
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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Frank A. Clark
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What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
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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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What God is to the world, parents are to their children.
Philo
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
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Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Richard L. Evans
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Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
Dennis Miller
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
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All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.
Robertson Davies
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
Felix Adler
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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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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
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No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence
Smiley Blanton
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
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Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.
Peter Gallagher
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Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.
Grant Hill
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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
Erma Bombeck
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Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster
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Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
Chanakya
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain