Parenting: Parenting Quotes

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"It takes three to make a child"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"Children make your life important"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

Erma Bombeck

"If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent"

Dave Barry, Author

Dave Barry

"I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry"

Democritus, Philosopher

Democritus

"The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

Phil McGraw

"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"To nourish children and raise them against odds, is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons"

Marilyn French, Author

Marilyn French

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

Allan Bloom

"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed"

Luther Burbank, Environmentalist

"I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"I figure if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years"

Anthony Powell, Novelist

"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

Anne McCaffrey

"Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family, and I share the concern about rising tuition costs"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands"

Anne Frank, Writer

"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

Anna Quindlen

"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed"

Maria Montessori, Educator

"I learned that no child is ever lost. They may be lost to their families, lost to society, but they are never lost to themselves"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

Mary MacCracken

"Children are not problems to be solved. They are people to be loved"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

Mary MacCracken

"Sometimes, all it takes is one person to believe in a child to change the course of their life"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

Mary MacCracken

"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie"

Nora Ephron, Author

"My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family"

Jeff Foxworthy, Comedian

Jeff Foxworthy

"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... Only the best is good enough for a child"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult"

Nadia Boulanger, Musician

"It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs"

Patrick Dempsey, Actor

"A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men"

Martin Farquhar Tupper, Writer

Martin Farquhar Tupper

"I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons"

Robert Martin, Politician

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