Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s"

Jane Kaczmarek, Actress

"Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse"

Rick Larsen, Politician

"Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period"

John Pople, Scientist

"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"I think having eight kids evens things out a bit. You learn about the world; you learn about the world; you learn you've got to get along. We're all - if anything - very adjustable"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children"

Steve Waugh, Athlete

"My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future"

Lisa Whelchel, Actor

"Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods"

Lisa Whelchel, Actor

"Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, okay, maybe in another two years"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"Let our children be taught love, love, love"

Daniel H. Hill, Soldier

"One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist"

Linda Blair, Actress

"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college"

John Gardner, Novelist

"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent, stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents"

Joan Chen, Actress

"The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school"

Mimi Rogers, Actress

"My husband and I had five biological children, but we also have been raising 23 foster children"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children!"

Mark Sanford, Politician

"We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures"

Ron Taffel, Writer

"Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is, that they can kind of live through"

Kathy Valentine, Musician

"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you, in my absence, of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children, is a laborious one, and a responsible one"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going"

Harriet Harman, Politician

"Our baby is safe, and it's just a house"

Jennifer Dunn, Politician

"Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!"

Ron Taffel, Writer

"You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure"

Lara St. John, Musician

"I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children"

David Soul, Actor

"I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote!"

Henry Winkler, Actor

"She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write"

Clive Cussler, Writer

"You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today, I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed"

Susannah McCorkle, Musician

"You know, raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult"

Robin Yount, Athlete

"I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick"

Marie Windsor, Actress

"When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

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