Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?"

Estelle Morris, Politician

"I have three kids who like Harry Potter, so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small, but they like the movies"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a GameBoy - that is a miracle in itself"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"At 23, it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square. I saw a kid walk into a restaurant the other day and his belt was below his backside. I would have turned him away"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime"

Red Skelton, Comedian

"As a gift from heaven, and at the same time a burden imposed on us by our condition as men, the child represents our most precious capital, and society must protect it from the dangers and the vagaries of life"

Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President

"When mothers and fathers are supportive or each other, it makes each of their paternal jobs infinitely easier. And parents who cannot bear being in one another's presence reveal as much, if not more, to a child about romantic love as anything the mother or father might say"

Victoria Secunda, Author

"Children who are accustomed to being treated well internalize that treatment and have a permanent sense of well-being. But children whose every need is instantly gratified and who are constantly praised to the skies do not have the same sense of well-being; rather, they may feel despair or rage when that gratification is withheld, or when everyone doesn't glorify them in the same way"

Victoria Secunda, Author

"I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through"

Jill Hennessy, Actress

"The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child"

Oliver Platt, Actor

"The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things"

Larry Dixon, Writer

"The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious"

Vince Poscente, Writer

"Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us"

Frederick Leboyer

"The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have"

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet

"Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child"

Susanna Moodie, Author

"I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing, and just try to be the best I can be for those kids"

Selena Gomez, Actress

"I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'"

Devon Werkheiser, Actor

"I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit"

Lisa Whelchel, Actor

"The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time"

Theresa May, Politician

"My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around"

Neneh Cherry, Musician

"However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home"

Robert Neelly Bellah, Sociologist

"Why do I jave to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid!"

Bob Gibson, Athlete

"Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition"

Fred Melamed, Actor

"The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess"

Jeanette MacDonald, Actress

"There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society"

Anne Lamott, Author

"It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children"

Ama Ata Aidoo, Author

"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give, the more you get, and the more you get, the more you feel like giving"

Penelope Leach, Psychologist

"I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone"

Jenny Shipley, Statesman

"If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children"

Barry McCaffrey, Soldier

"It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point"

Ruth Buzzi, Actress

"The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs"

Roy Horn, Entertainer

"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual"

Melinda Gates, Clergyman

"Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future"

Mark Helprin, Novelist

"I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point"

Patrick Warburton, Actor

"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place"

Laurel Lee

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