Parenting Quotes - Page 14

• From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

  Plato

  Children, Beast, Difficult

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• Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspire, Parenthood, Remains

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Teacher, Children, Leader

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• Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Opiates, Parenthood, Mass

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Graduation, Kindness, Children

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• My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

  Joan Rivers

  Mother, Children, Humorous

  "Goodbye to the mother of all comedians: Joan Rivers' 9 best quotes on motherhood" by Sarah Maizes, www.today.com. September 05, 2014.

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• The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

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• What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

  Epictetus

  Children, Ignorance, Want

  Epictetus (1925). “Discourses”

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• ~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~

  Emma Thompson

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

  Josh Billings

  Communication, Anger, Insperational

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Expectations, World

  Great Expectations ch. 8 (1861)

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• With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.

  John Leguizamo

  Inspirational, Kids, Years

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• Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

  Princess Diana

  Children, Kindness, Inspire

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• Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Growing Up, Father

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• No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

  Fiona Apple

  Kids, Wanted

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

  Aristotle

  People, Young

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• I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hurt, Children, Tired

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.

  Dave Barry

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

  Mark Twain

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

  Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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• I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

  Debra Winger

  Age, Roles, Yearning

  "Book World: Debra Winger on 'Undiscovered'". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Expectations are resentments under construction.

  Anne Lamott

  Expectations, Resentment, Construction

  Anne Lamott (2017). “Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy”, p.29, Penguin

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• We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  World, Virgin Suicides, Versions

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

  Richard Paul Evans

  Children, Responsibility, Childhood

  Richard Paul Evans (2001). “The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

  Jodi Picoult

  Parent

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

  Lynn Johnston

  Inspiring, Mom, Stay Strong

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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