Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife"

Neil LaBute, Director

"I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. 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, Writer

"Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do, my kids can't see"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"But neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes"

Paula Danziger, Author

"My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood"

Paula Danziger, Author

"I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip'"

Tyra Banks, Model

"I like kids, but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that, hopefully"

Jo Brand, Comedian

"My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally has a far too high value"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy!"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

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