Parenting Quotes - Page 15

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Witty, Time

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 2

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• And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

  Alice Walker

  Family, Mother, Flower

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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• But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

  Betty Smith

  Needs, Needed, Being Loved

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Loving families value effort as much as success.

  Wes Fesler

  Effort, Loving Family, Family Values

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• A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

  Stephen Colbert

  Teacher, Children, Father

  "I Am America (And So Can You!)". Book by Stephen Colbert. Part One: "My American Childhood", Chapter One: "The Family", 2007.

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• In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Garden, Discovery

  "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974)

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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, Next Move

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

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• I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Birthday, Inspiring, Children

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• Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

  Mitch Albom

  Hurt, Kids, Want

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

  Scott Dikkers

  Atheist, Lying, Believe

  Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.170, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

  Kenny G

  Boys, Parenthood, Ideals

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

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• Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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• In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Punishment, Affliction

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• There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

  Marie Osmond

  Baby, Mean, Doctors

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• Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Responsibility, Parent, Ifs

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• A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

  Banksy

  Mother, Children, Graffiti

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

  John H. Johnson

  Mother, Strong, Hard Work

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I've been baking bread and looking after the baby...Everyone else who has asked me that question over the last few years says. 'But what else have you been doing?' To which I say, 'Are you kidding?' Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves [of bread,] I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, Jesus, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?

  John Lennon

  Baby, Jesus, Jobs

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• One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

  Anne Fadiman

  Children, Thinking, Joy

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.27, Macmillan

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• There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

  Benjamin Spock

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

  Hanna Rosin

  Baby, Emotional, Attachment

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• My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

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• I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

  Jodi Picoult

  Should Have, Names, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Peace, Home, World

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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