Parenting Quotes - Page 19

• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies

  June Allyson

  Inspiring, Baby, Stay Strong

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• ~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~

  Faith Hill

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

  Guy Lombardo

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

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• No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.

  Amy Leslie

  Mom, Baby, Animal

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• A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Motivational, Baby

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

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• Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Children, Humorous, Boys

  Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.28, Transaction Publishers

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• People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Children, Humorous

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• What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

  Philo

  Family, Children, World

  "The Works of Philo Judaeus".

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• Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

  Art Linkletter

  Funny, Children, Different

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• Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Jobs, Children

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

  Joan Rivers

  Motherhood, Thank God, Want

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• My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

  Joan Rivers

  Dog, Baby, Memorable

  "Funny Ladies". Book by B. Adler, 2001.

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• Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Children, Humorous

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• Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

  Clive Owen

  Kids, Perfect, Negotiation

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• Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Children, Kids

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• To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Daughter, Mother, Hurt

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

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• If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Men, Helping

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 4), 1949.

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• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  Kamisese Mara

  Fun, Hard Work, Effort

  Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand, July 26, 1999.

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• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Tasks

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Miracle in the World”, p.99, Bantam

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• You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

  Jay Leno

  Inspirational, Mother, Children

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  Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Powerful, Reading, Communication

  Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923

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• Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Mom, Daughter

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• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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