Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother"

John Lone, Actor

"I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do"

Kiana Tom, Model

"Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents"

Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright

"If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too"

John Lithgow, Actor

"My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time, but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"As the tree is bent, so it will grow"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well"

Heidi Klum, Model

"They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them"

Paul Reiser, Comedian

"When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right!"

Joseph Jackson, Businessman

"I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education, which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that"

Paul Reiser, Comedian

"My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant"

David Thewlis, Actor

"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business"

Diana Ross, Actress

"I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children"

David Duchovny, Actor

"On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts"

David Duchovny, Actor

"Children want to do what grownups do"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it"

King Solomon, Royalty

"These wretched babies don't come until they are ready"

Elizabeth II, Royalty

"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old"

Jean Kerr, Playwright

"Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it"

Jean Kerr, Playwright

"I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth"

Lauren Holly, Actress

"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories"

John Wilmot, Writer

"I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky"

Annette Bening, Actress

"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings"

Stevie Nicks, Musician

"In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning"

Roger Ascham, Writer

"Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?"

Frank Pittman

"Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else"

Michael Madsen, Actor

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