Parenthood Quotes - Page 14

• Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Fathers Day, Children

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• Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

  Lee Haney

  Kids, Volunteer, Parent

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• I understand that I have many, many friends who are women who understand Planned Parenthood better than you or I will ever understand it. And they do some very good work. Cervical cancer, lots of women's issues, women's health issues are taken care of. I know one of the candidates, I won't mention names, said, "We're not going to spend that kind of money on women's health issues." I am. Planned Parenthood does a really good job at a lot of different areas. But not on abortion. So I'm not going to fund it if it's doing the abortion.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Cancer, Taken

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Planned Parenthood does some very good work. But I would defund as long as they're doing abortions.

  Donald Trump

  Long, Abortion, Doe

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• My kids are so much better parent than I was.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Parent

  "Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2000.

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• The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Parent, Special, Mills

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• So many state Republican governors and legislators are defunding Planned Parenthood and shutting down clinics that not only provide a safe abortion but HIV testing, cancer screenings, and so much else that women have every right to access, which is harder if you are unemployed or you are a low-income woman that's part of the real service that Planned Parenthood provides.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cancer, Real, Abortion

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

  LeBron James

  Book, Encyclopedia

  "NBA Finalists Stephen Curry and LeBron James Share What They've Learned About Fatherhood" by Joi-Marie Mckenzie, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2016.

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• I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

  Jessa Crispin

  Father, Twenties, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the limits to our control that parenthood teaches- - that that will be lost and that we will begin to think of children more as consumer goods than as gifts that we can't fully control and for which we aren't fully responsible.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Teaching, Humility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm always keeping an eye on the court. Also, when the members of Congress came to his office during the budget debacle of a year and a half back and said, "We want to de-fund Planned Parenthood," he said, "Not going to happen." Those apparently were more or less his exact words.

  Anna Quindlen

  Eye, Years, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you can't go back. So they're going to keep nattering on about this and that, and maybe they'll make another stab at de-funding the fabulous Planned Parenthood or something of the sort. To my mind, it's just not going to work.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mean, People, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

  George Meyer

  Daughter, Long, Given

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

  Patricia Heaton

  Kids, Parenting, Healthy

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• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.124, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Parenting, Justice

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2009

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• You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

  Lowell Ganz

  Grandpa, Sick, Interesting

  "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• Single parenthood is hard, but it's simple too. You just do everything yourself.

  Amy Dickinson

  Simple, Single Parent, Hard

  "The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them". Book by Amy Dickinson, February 3, 2009.

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• I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

  Robert Benton

  Sex, Law, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Jobs, Dad, Children

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• I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

  Anne Tyler

  Marriage, Lasts, Suspects

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• Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

  Margaret Mead

  Second Chance, Grandparent, Anxiety

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Children, Heart, Parenting

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• It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

  Earl Nightingale

  Success, Sports, Golf

  "How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds".

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• The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Sports, Baseball, Writing

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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