Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby"

Susan Oliver, Actress

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me"

Kate Winslet, Actress

"I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example"

Steve Garvey, Athlete

"Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

"I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be"

Sean Paul, Musician

"I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... The child is a living being, and the chair is an object"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children"

Zane Grey, Author

"We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them"

Peter Chernin, Businessman

"If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains"

Ron Silver, Actor

"The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece"

James Theodore Bent, Explorer

"I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids"

Keith Emerson, Musician

"I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons"

Nia Long, Actress

"I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd"

George Thorogood, Musician

"I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids"

Robbie Williams, Musician

"You wouldn't think it would, but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own, they were very supportive"

Elmer Bernstein, Composer

"Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it"

Toni Braxton, Musician

"Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood"

Robin G. Collingwood, Philosopher

"The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'"

Morgan Spurlock, Director

"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents"

Jack Valenti, Businessman

"It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do"

Robbie Coltrane, Actor

"Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, there's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills"

Tom DeLay, Politician

"Making sure that when my child went to school, people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day"

Stanley Tucci, Actor

"If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray, for instance, I will punish them"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play, and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters"

Hugh Mackay, Writer

"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen"

Hugh Mackay, Writer

"You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow"

Dudley Nichols, Screenwriter

"I always quit at three when my kids come home from school, so I feel pretty spoiled"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents"

Mike DeWine, Politician

"Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it"

Sue Johanson, Writer

"It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child"

Tracey Ullman, Comedian

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