Parenting Quotes - Page 18

• If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Mean

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• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, Responsibility, Maturity

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• The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Lying, Mean

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• Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

  L. Tom Perry

  Powerful, Home, Motherhood

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• The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

  Charles de Lint

  Funny, Children, Problem

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Attention, Pay

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• If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must
  teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their
  appreciation of their obligation to others.

  Clarence Page

  Appreciation, Children, Fabric

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• The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

  John Mortimer

  Children, Good Life, Work

  "Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged" by L.M. Boyd, www.sfgate.com. May 13, 1995.

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• Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

  Nancy Chodorow

  Inspire, World, Occupation

  Nancy Chodorow (1978). “The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender”, p.31, Univ of California Press

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• Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

  Joan Rivers

  Motherhood, Eggs, Watches

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• My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

  Joan Rivers

  Cousin, Motherhood, Birth

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• A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Wings, Roots

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• My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

  Joan Rivers

  Memories, Motherhood, Childhood

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.13, Penguin

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• The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

  Arnold Bennett

  Children, Parents Love, Funny Parent

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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Speech, Public Speaking

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• Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Humorous, Kids

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.722, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Children, Humorous

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• If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

  Jane Clayson Johnson

  Children, Character, Opportunity

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• The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

  Lee Corso

  Character, People, Needs

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• Always obey your parents - when they are present.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Humorous, Parent

  Mark Twain, Gregg Camfield, Sally Wern Comport (2005). “Mark Twain”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Motherhood, Glasses

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Deluxe”, p.19, Penguin

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• In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pain, May, Our Society

  Sheila Kitzinger (1978). “Women as mothers”

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• Little girls love dolls. They just don't love dolls clothes

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Girl, Clothes, Dolls

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• To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my "plan" was for taking down the Christmas tree.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Husband, Book

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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