Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere"

Kent McCord, Actor

"Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities"

Kent McCord, Actor

"We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed"

Bob Taft, Politician

"Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer"

Kent McCord, Actor

"I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had"

David Hyde Pierce, Actor

"I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature"

Kent McCord, Actor

"Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment"

Bob Ney, Politician

"I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults"

Clayton Christensen, Businessman

"I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex?"

Robert Benton, Director

"I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while"

Lauren Ambrose, Actress

"We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative"

Herb Kohl, Politician

"The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience"

Hugh Mackay, Writer

"I get bitter, angry and disbelieving, and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot"

Fay Wray, Actress

"I'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids"

Chris Kattan, Comedian

"The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"Education begins at home, and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them"

John Goodman, Actor

"Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have!"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"I have a child, and I'm a parent, first of all"

Izabella Scorupco, Actress

"People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well"

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Politician

"When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"My life before children, I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember"

John Malkovich, Actor

"Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them"

John Boehner, Politician

"Having children really changes your priorities"

Cindy Crawford, Model

"They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'"

Albert Finney, Actor

"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family"

Avi Arad, Businessman

"I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe, and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner"

Alessandro Del Piero, Athlete

"You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave"

Giuseppe Garibaldi, Soldier

"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late"

Betty Ford, First Lady

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