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"I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano"
Debbie Gibson, Musician
"Because I practice often with my children at home"
Andrea Bocelli, Musician
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities"
Eda J. Le Shan, Writer
"The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent"
Mark Hoppus, Musician
"Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?"
Dorothy Nolte, Writer
"Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today"
Jack Valenti, Businessman
"The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children"
Nancy Friday, Author
"I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see"
Jude Law, Actor
"I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention"
Kenny Guinn, Politician
"We need to stop the erosion of parental authority"
Sonny Landham, Actor
"A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss"
Tina Fey, Comedian
"I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch"
Burt Ward, Actor
"My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development"
Melanie Klein, Psychologist
"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies?"
Sophocles, Author
"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"
Cicero, Philosopher
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue"
Plato, Philosopher
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education"
Plato, Philosopher
"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones"
Sydney J. Harris, Journalist
"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: It is better than bombing one out of it"
James A. Baldwin, Author
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back"
John Ruskin, Writer
"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"Even from their infancy, we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning, and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is, but the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents because we know that the first years truly last forever"
Rob Reiner, Director
"Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life"
Rob Reiner, Director
"What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions"
George Santayana, Philosopher
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