Parenthood Quotes - Page 15

• Due to the potent combination of my sexual recklessness and the slutty nature of some of the girls I have slept with, I have accumulated enough stories and anecdotes about abortion that they could name a Planned Parenthood clinic after me.

  Tucker Max

  Girl, Names, Abortion

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• The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.

  Jessica Valenti

  Motherhood, Giving, Parent

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

  Haim Ginott

  Personality, Parent, Events

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• Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, Attitude, Parent

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• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  Tanya Tucker

  Parent, Life Happens, Knows

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• No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

  Anthony Quinn

  Kids, Parent, Forever

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• As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Children, Parent, Problem

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• Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Doubt

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• I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my experience that when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Heart, Skills

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• I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

  Norma Shearer

  Mother, Father, Parenting

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

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• Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

  Jason Katims

  Children, Actors, Wonderful

  "Why My Child Actor Deserves an Emmy" by Jason Katims, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

  Jon Kyl

  Doctors, Blood, People

  "CNN Anchor Completely Misquotes Sen. Kyl in Soft Interview of Planned Parenthood President". www.newsbusters.org. April 8, 2011.

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• We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.

  Judith Viorst

  Depressing, Children, Knowing

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• how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

  Jan Struther

  Children, Fun, Discovery

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• I was filled with rage. These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of ‘targeting’ African-American children, they care about you only while you’re in the womb. The minute you crown, you’re on your own.

  Gwen Moore

  Children, People, African American

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• Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

  Evan Esar

  Children, Childhood, Parent

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

  Marlee Matlin

  Mom, Jobs, Children

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• What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

  William Godwin

  Children, Parent, Sound

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.276

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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

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 26, 2004.

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• Life's what happens when you're making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Background Noise, Busy, American Gods

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• Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, People, Giving

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• The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

  Walt Disney

  Children, Parenting, Evil

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Race, Population

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• Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Population, Moron

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.403, Inkling Books

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• You will always be your child's favorite toy.

  Vicki Lansky

  Mom, Children, Parent

  "Trouble-free Travel with Children: Helpful Hints for Parents on the Go". Book by Vicki Lansky, 1991.

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