Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss"

Deepak Chopra, Philosopher

"Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"Being a parent is the most rewarding, challenging, and humbling experience I've ever had. But it's also taught me so much about myself and about life"

Emma Heming Willis, Actress

"The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed"

John Mortimer, Novelist

"But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference"

William Godwin, Writer

"If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want"

Billy Joel, Musician

"My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"I would say that my parents were supportive of me"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years"

Anthony Powell, Novelist

"Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune"

Richard Whately, Writer

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty, but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world, and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"

Paul Sweeney, Politician

"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them"

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist

"My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at Walmart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"When a baby comes, you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times, but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them, and there's a searing pain that goes through your body"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"My kids are young, and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up"

Damon Wayans, Comedian

"My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands"

Anne Frank, Writer

"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly, I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

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