Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!"

Gil Gerard, Actor

"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"The only thing an adult can give a child is time"

Chuck Jones, Director

"I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child"

Boy George, Musician

"Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school"

Denise Richards, Actress

"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business"

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Politician

"Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them"

Treat Williams, Actor

"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up"

James C. Dobson, Psychologist

"Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children"

Patrick Buchanan, Politician

"I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard, basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child, we decided to try this"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games"

Faith Hill, Musician

"I feel that it's our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"I understood, once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them"

Spalding Gray, Actor

"If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book, it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept"

James Collins, Athlete

"Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college"

Treat Williams, Actor

"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home"

Alice Munro, Writer

"I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse"

Neal Barnard, Author

"There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then"

Hazel Scott, Musician

"Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"No, but women are saying, and they say, Are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old, I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate"

Quintilian, Educator

"We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio"

Nick Cannon, Musician

"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same"

Shirley Bassey, Musician

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