Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete"

Edwin Moses, Athlete

"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that"

Charles Buxton, Public Servant

"And, over the last thirty years, we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased, and women's have stayed at about the same"

James Levine, Musician

"Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers"

James Levine, Musician

"That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other"

Laura Dern, Actress

"You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job"

Laura Dern, Actress

"I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own"

David Allan Coe, Musician

"To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Shame is a fitter, and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids"

Dana Carvey, Comedian

"No, I don't miss fighting, I still got my wits about me and there are a lot of people who do it and get beat up, and I don't want to be one of them, I have children to raise"

Michael Moorer, Athlete

"Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go"

Fred Rogers, Celebrity

"I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with"

Shakira, Musician

"Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children"

Judith Martin, Author

"When you have kids, you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children"

David Beckham, Athlete

"This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie"

Dana Carvey, Comedian

"Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids"

Catherine Bell, Model

"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, Journalist

"I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline"

Fred Rogers, Celebrity

"I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you"

Tre Cool, Musician

"I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders"

Abigail Van Buren, Journalist

"Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does"

Joey Adams, Comedian

"We, children, learned responsibility automatically"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house"

Patrick Dempsey, Actor

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