Parenthood Quotes - Page 11

• Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Home, Kids, Parenting

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• There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show.

  Monica Potter

  Reality, Thinking, 80s And 90s

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• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Parent, Faithful, Unhappy

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• Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to spoil them. I just enjoy everything that comes naturally with parenthood.

  Curtis Joseph

  Kids, Parent, Want

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• Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

  Jack Valenti

  Home, Power, America

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• Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.

  Mike Myers

  Adventure, Evil, Parent

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• Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

  Leon Kass

  Children, Parent, Looks

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• Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

  Bill Ayers

  Kids, Parenting, Compassion

  "An Unconditional Embrace". Interview with Gabriel Lyon, www.tolerance.org. Spring 1998.

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  Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Children, Parenting, Too Much

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard: Olympians”

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• What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

  Marlee Matlin

  Parent, Obstacles, Easy

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• Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most utopias end and by some measure fail. And just because they're a failure doesn't mean there isn't value there.

  Lauren Groff

  Mean, Failing, Utopia

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• Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Selfish, Thoughtful

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• I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

  Frances O'Grady

  Mother, Thinking, Feet

  "'Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?'". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.

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• The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Careers, Parent, Comedy

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• Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

  Jackie Speier

  Abortion, Planning, Family Planning

  "Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier Talks About Her Terminated Pregnancy" by Ryan Grim, Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Kids, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Dancing, Steps

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• When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Miracle, Terrible

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• When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.

  Jack Kornfield

  Expression, Long, Childhood

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• We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

  Thomas McGuane

  Children, Couple, Hands

  Thomas McGuane (2015). “Crow Fair: Stories”, p.82, Vintage

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• Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

  Jon Stewart

  Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities, Scratches

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• I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

  Anne Tyler

  Husband, Mean, Thinking

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• She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

  Kristin Hannah

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

  Kristin Hannah (2011). “Night Road”, p.13, Macmillan

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• One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Kids, Parenting

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• But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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