Parenthood Quotes - Page 5

• In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Art, Children, Moving

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• Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

  Cecile Richards

  Years, Birth Control, Illegal

  "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom
  Of having children after having had them,
  So there is nothing we can do about it
  But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

  Robert Frost

  Children, Should Have, Choices

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

  Angela Kinsey

  Sacrifice, Self, Lessons

  "The Office‘s Angela Kinsey Gets Serious About Sea Turtles" by Tamar Abrams, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

  Nancy Atherton

  Children, Suffering, Faces

  Nancy Atherton (1998). “Aunt Dimity's Good Deed”, p.152, Penguin

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• Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Art, Parent, Invention

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2014). “The Critic”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

  Bev Perdue

  President, Standing, Romney

  "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Daughter, Cost

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• A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors-the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.

  Josiah Johnson Hawes

  Character, Parent, Rewards

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• My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

  Marion Jones

  Mom, Mother, Father

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

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• Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Sleep, Classic

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 18, 2011.

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• For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.

  Joyce Maynard

  Running, Jobs, Water

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• How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

  Arna Bontemps

  Parent, Dare, Critics

  Arna Wendell Bontemps (1973). “The Old South: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties”, Dodd Mead

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• A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

  William Watson Purkey

  Mother, Father, Mistake

  William Watson Purkey (2000). “What Students Say to Themselves: Internal Dialogue and School Success”, Corwin

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• A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Death, Giving, Mad

  'Journal' p. 29

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• The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Beautiful, Romance, Marriage Love

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• Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Parent, Ramp, Terrible

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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• Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

  Alfie Kohn

  Moving, Punishment, Rewards

  "Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason". Book by Alfie Kohn, March 28, 2006.

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• Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Children, Impossible, Without You

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• The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

  James Ellroy

  Mother, Hate, Years

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• The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.

  John L. Harper

  Science, Theory Of Evolution, People

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• In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Meaningful, Children, Priorities

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• I think the point of America, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point. The fact that I've never had to use a Planned Parenthood, the fact that I've never been in need of medical services I couldn't afford or didn't have access to, doesn't mean I shouldn't be concerned about the fact that other women don't have that access.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Mean, Thinking, America

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Planned Parenthood gave me an award for the Willie Parker story that I was deeply honored by. I didn't get any negative comments. I think the Willie Parker piece had more of an impact on people in that sense because it went deeper into the clinic itself.

  John H Richardson

  Thinking, Impact, Awards

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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