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"I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt"
Phil McGraw, Psychologist
"Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts"
Marian Wright Edelman, Activist
"I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock"
Julia Roberts, Actress
"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy"
George Clooney, Actor
"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood"
Germaine Greer, Activist
"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children"
Germaine Greer, Activist
"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children"
Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist
"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author
"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future"
Gerald R. Ford, President
"Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents"
Earl Wilson, Athlete
"My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians"
Nadia Comaneci, Athlete
"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author
"Children need models rather than critics"
Joseph Joubert, Writer
"If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure"
Lee Trevino, Athlete
"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that"
R. D. Laing, Psychologist
"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS"
Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer
"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it"
Margaret Fuller, Critic
"I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too"
James Dean, Actor
"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception"
Alan Bennett, Dramatist
"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable"
Annie Dillard, Author
"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world"
Elie Wiesel, Novelist
"He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin Zoo, there were 200 photographers"
Martin Bashir, Journalist
"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home"
Robert Orben, Entertainer
"There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility"
Maria Callas, Musician
"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe"
Jean Paul, Author
"For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma"
Brad Henry, Politician
"It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential"
Brad Henry, Politician
"I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting"
Queen Victoria, Royalty
"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault"
Branch Rickey, Athlete
"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out"
Hilaire Belloc, Poet
"There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life"
Daniel Keys Moran, Writer
"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting"
Virginia Satir, Psychologist
"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending"
Virginia Satir, Psychologist
"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends"
Chanakya, Politician
"The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children"
Antonio Porchia, Poet
"Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child"
Michael Jackson, Musician
"Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him"
Michael Jackson, Musician
"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children, but because of the friendship formed while raising them"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur"
Alvin Toffler, Author
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