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"Call not that man wretched, who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"You know, the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
"I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
"Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
"Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much"
Bill Cosby, Comedian
"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it"
Harry S. Truman, President
"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it"
Harry S. Truman, President
"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born, it compels humility: what we began is now its own"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world"
Bette Davis, Actress
"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get"
H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author
"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep"
H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author
"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going"
P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist
"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern"
R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor
"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"Let your children go, if you want to keep them"
Malcolm Forbes, Publisher
"Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids"
Bo Bennett, Businessman
"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion"
Terence, Playwright
"I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"I don't love kids"
Miley Cyrus, Musician
"One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
"Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
"Never have more children than you have car windows"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
"I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years""
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
"When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911"
Erma Bombeck, Journalist
"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much"
Jackie Kennedy, First Lady
"That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity"
Charles Eastman, Author
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