Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"Patience and persistence are the keys to helping children with special needs"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

Mary MacCracken

"Children don't always understand their emotions. They need someone to help them navigate through the confusion"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

Mary MacCracken

"Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

Christina Aguilera

"Don't forget that compared to a grown-up person, every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

May Sarton, Poet

May Sarton

"If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there"

Bob Seger, Musician

"I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them"

Bob Seger, Musician

"Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life"

Muriel Spark, Novelist

"Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could!"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use, but in their status as possessions"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them"

Samuel Rutherford, Theologian

"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children"

Leon Kass, Educator

"Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children"

Leon Kass, Educator

"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

Magic Johnson

"Nothing outside of my child is important"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

Sarah McLachlan

"I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

Peter Shaffer

"It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants"

Leon Kass, Educator

"My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be"

Joan Jett, Musician

Joan Jett

"No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm"

Tom Allen, Politician

"Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think"

Dixie Carter, Actor

"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

Don Van Vliet

"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

Hedy Lamarr

"It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually"

Anthony Trollope, Author

Anthony Trollope

"Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do"

Brigham Young, Leader

Brigham Young

"If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment"

Tom Ford, Designer

"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

Joseph Wood Krutch

"More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad"

James Levine, Musician

James Levine

"You can never spend enough time with children"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

Dwayne Hickman

"My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do"

Gwen Stefani, Musician

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