Parenting Quotes - Page 20

• Mothers are all slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Family, Healing

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• I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I had of growing up. Without it ruining everything Beck and I had. I didn’t understand how someone could be both God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you. When everything I was, good and bad, was knotted with threads of his making, how was I supposed to know whether to love or hate him?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Growing Up, Memories, Hate

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.740, Scholastic Inc.

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• You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

  Lisa Gardner

  Fighting, Thinking, Despair

  Lisa Gardner (2010). “Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel”, p.87, Bantam

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• Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

  Randy Pausch

  Educational, Kids, Favors

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Drama, Believe

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• ... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Girl, Strong, Passion

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• I gave you life. You’re wasting it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Parent, Breaking Dawn, Saga

  "Breaking Dawn". Book by Stephenie Meyer, August 2, 2008.

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• If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

  Amy Carmichael

  Children, Growing Up, Taught

  Amy Carmichael (2002). “Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship”, p.10, CLC Publications

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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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• If your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you 'do' boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.

  Henry Cloud

  Kids, Reality, Training

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2009). “Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Children, Ignorance

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.83

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• We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Growing Up, Children, Fall

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 03, 2016

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• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong Women, Children, Lakes

  A Prairie Home Companion (radio series) (1974 - 1987)

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  A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  William James

  Motivational, Inspiring, Attitude

  "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.

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• Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mom, Witty, Funny Inspirational

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.81, Penguin

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• It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

  Cindy Crawford

  Inspiring, Baby, Mirrors

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• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Children

  1962 In the Saturday Review, Fall issue.

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• Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

  Elias Canetti

  Children, Practice, Deception

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• I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

  Barbara Bush

  Parent, Worried

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• My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.96, Fawcett

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

  John Boehner

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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• I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

  Mary J. Blige

  Children, Would Be, Poor

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