Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?"

Sam Levenson, Author

"The constant attention is what is so difficult"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed, or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor"

Sam Levenson, Author

"In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly, the same message is being given to the parents of tweens"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become"

Louis Pasteur, Scientist

"Each day of our lives, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children"

Charles R. Swindoll, Clergyman

"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

"Our children are our greatest resource, and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures"

Jet Li, Actor

"Pregnancy is a kind of miracle, especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself"

Philip Larkin, Poet

"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter"

Eminem, Musician

"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children"

Rick Warren, Writer

"We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart"

Hesiod, Poet

"Our children were trained to look after each other"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

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