Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born, it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"All the time a person is a child, he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent, he becomes predominantly a parent, reliving childhood"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"People say, when you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"I am glad that I do not have any children"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching"

Gilbert Highet, Writer

"Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me"

King George V, Royalty

"At the age of 16, I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family"

Milla Jovovich, Model

"Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports"

Bernice Weissbourd, Writer

"Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness"

Neil Kurshan

"I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful"

Treat Williams, Actor

"It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do, but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man"

Adam Baldwin, Actor

"Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17"

Lee Majors, Actor

"While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease"

Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist

"I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less"

Alex Haley, Novelist

"I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant"

Bill Nelson, Politician

"My children deserve to have the best, and now they will"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can"

Julie Christie, Actress

"I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence"

Julius Erving, Athlete

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