Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father, consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children"

Melinda Gates, Clergyman

"I do tend to lose track, since the kids are out of school"

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

"Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree"

Ruth Ann Minner, Politician

"He that spareth the rod hateth his son"

John Skelton, Poet

"Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable, they should turn it off. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why"

Bill Bixby, Actor

"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself"

Dionne Warwick, Musician

"I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way"

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Politician

"If you have a great passion, it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children"

Roman Polanski, Director

"I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again"

Roger Andrew Taylor, Musician

"I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about"

Natalie Cole, Musician

"And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years"

Mark Strong, Actor

"When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about"

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor

"When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision"

Nick Cassavetes, Actor

"Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports"

Joan Cusack, Actress

"Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children"

Jane Howard, Journalist

"But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?"

Ernie Hudson, Actor

"Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff"

Bob Keeshan, Entertainer

"Before the child ever gets to school, it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education, and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing"

Mary Calderone, Scientist

"Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working, I'm cool with the Teletubbies"

Clive Owen, Actor

"Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters"

Beryl Bainbridge, Novelist

"It is something that most parents hope for in life: that their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do"

Jerry Kramer, Athlete

"The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens"

Troy Vincent, Athlete

"Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games"

Jerry Kramer, Athlete

"The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for"

C. Everett Koop, Public Servant

"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride"

Ron Taffel, Writer

"Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion"

Eberhard Arnold, Theologian

"Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old? No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell"

Stephen Baker, Athlete

"Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid.' No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed"

Al Green, Musician

"Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children"

Paula Yates, Entertainer

"It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people"

Bob Keeshan, Entertainer

"My children are the most important thing in my life"

Columba Bush, Celebrity

"I think I have enough tattoos for now. If I get any others, I'll probably do my kids' initials"

Niki Taylor, Model

"I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish"

Henry Darrow, Actor

"It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness"

Sloan Wilson, Novelist

"He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could"

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

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