Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet

"Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?"

Abraham Polonsky, Director

"Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children"

Lee Majors, Actor

"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"Sometimes, you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone, when we are dealing with young children, are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"I would never want any of my kids to go into this industry; not until they are old enough to understand and if this is something that they really want to do"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system"

Steven Chu, Scientist

"That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics, should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money, and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble"

Martin Mull, Actor

"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain"

Martin Mull, Actor

"If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

"The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests"

Lawrence Kutner, Writer

"I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me"

Lee Majors, Actor

"To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently, you hate each other"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone"

Quintilian, Educator

"Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else"

Usher Raymond, Musician

"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not"

Lawrence Kutner, Writer

"I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It's a beautiful thing!"

Scott Baio, Actor

"LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts"

Bill Murray, Actor

"Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"I have two children and they're young yet, but all of the children that I know really inspire me"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness, in sending abroad mortal contagions, doth assuredly direct their use"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"Children are our future; we must take care of them with maximum effort"

Naomi Campbell, Model

"No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday"

Faith Hill, Musician

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