Parenthood Quotes - Page 10

• And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Hypocrisy, Parent

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Growing Up, Home

  "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Have Not Reduced Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2009.

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• Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

  Robert Breault

  Parent, Funny Mothers Day, Passing

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• Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the childs viewing to a certain point.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Children, Parent, Important

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• I believe that a parents role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

  David Soul

  Children, Believe, Opportunity

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• Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag.

  Karen Handel

  Bully, Bags, Punching

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• Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.

  Michael Gerson

  Humility, Sacrifice, Stories

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  The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

  Jim Henson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Karma

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Changed

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• Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Children, Parent

  Russell Baker (2011). “Growing Up”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Inspiration, Parenting

  "Letters to mothers".

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• A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Love, Wise, Independent

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• It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Children, Teenager

  Kelly Corrigan (2008). “The Middle Place”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies

  June Allyson

  Inspiring, Baby, Stay Strong

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• I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide.

  Kathleen Turner

  Sex, Real, Women

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• You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

  Connie Sellecca

  Children, Parenting, Support

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• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  Felicity Huffman

  Commitment, Organization, Issues

  "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

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• 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

  Children, Reality, Years

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• Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.

  E.W. Jackson

  Party, Rights, Kkk

  "Virginia Republicans nominate Tea Party favorite for lieutenant governor" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Role Models, Parent

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• Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

  Richard Carmona

  Block, Trying, Nonsensical

  "Arizona Effort to Block Contraception Simply Bad Health Policy" by Richard H. Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Children, Believe, Parenting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are the people our parents warned us about.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Change, People, Parent

  Song: We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About, Album: One Particular Harbour, 1983

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• Lenscrafters is upset with Tea Partier Michele Bachmann because she called Planned Parenthood 'the Lenscrafters of abortion.' Lenscrafters released a statement today calling her 'the Costco of crazy.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Crazy, Abortion, Upset

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• I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Moving, Fall

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