Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel"

Todd English, Celebrity

"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress"

Frank Pittman

"Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones"

David Dinkins, Politician

"And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet"

David Dinkins, Politician

"You can't be too careful what you tell a child, because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun"

Wavy Gravy, Activist

"My parents were pretty lenient with me. But they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong"

Mark Hoppus, Musician

"I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV"

William H. Macy, Actor

"They have the big Ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment"

Nia Long, Actress

"I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see: how you get along"

Peter Krause, Actor

"The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how"

John Walsh, Entertainer

"I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes"

Linda Fiorentino, Actress

"I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic"

Karen Duffy, Actress

"Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest"

Jenny McCarthy, Model

"No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him"

Frank Pittman

"A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life"

Frank Pittman

"As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids"

Dennis Farina, Actor

"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters"

Rachel Blanchard, Actress

"Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us"

Harpo Marx, Comedian

"When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made"

Alison Moyet, Musician

"My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had"

Perry Como, Musician

"My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me"

Meredith Brooks, Musician

"I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies; we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect"

Susan Griffin, Writer

"I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer"

Stevie Nicks, Musician

"Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories"

John Wilmot, Writer

"I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough"

Linda McCartney, Photographer

"My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created"

Michael Schumacher, Celebrity

"For the first time in my life, I feel important. I'd like to have five babies"

June Allyson, Actress

"Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy"

Michelle Pfeiffer, Actress

"We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory"

Jeffrey Hunter, Actor

"Children enhance you"

Melanie Griffith, Actress

"My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible"

Tony Danza, Actor

"He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for"

Thomas Griffith, Editor

"At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls"

Sadie Frost, Actress

"Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother, 'What will I be? Will I be handsome, will I be rich?'"

Jay Livingston, Composer

"We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

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