Parenting Quotes - Page 23

• ~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and everything has to be put in its place - [the kids] live here as much as we do. You come into our house and a giant elephant and lion are welcoming you. We have toys and things everywhere.~

  Heidi Klum

  Kids, Museums, Elephants

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• ~Before you have kids, when you're on a plane and there's a screaming kid, all you can think is, Give me earplugs! As soon as I became a mom, though, I got it. You find yourself asking, 'What can I do? You want me to hold him?' Because you think about the time your kids was screaming, and there was the one parent who looked at you and smiled. And that compassion was everything.~

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

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• Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

  Kevin Heath

  Kids, Love Is, Giving

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• Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's

  Kevin Heath

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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• The best gift is giving from your heart

  Kevin Heath

  Heart, Giving, Best Gift

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• Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Children, Parenthood, Your Children

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• Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• ~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~

  Geena Davis

  Mean, Kids, College

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• It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Inspiration, Function

  Herbert Spencer (1866). “Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.178

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• The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

  Lewis Mumford

  Children, Inspiration, Cutting

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• ~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced.~

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Believe, Pregnancy, Mean

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• ~I got pregnant, and I was like, 'Oh God, it worked! Oh no!' Chris [Ivery, her husband] and I were super happy, then I got terrified! Will I know how to do everything right? Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that's the best you can do.~

  Ellen Pompeo

  Baby, Husband, Long

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• I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what
  my father taught by example in one week.

  Mario Cuomo

  Marriage, Fathers Day, Dad

  Time Magazine, June 02, 1986.

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• The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

  Albert J. Nock

  Inspirational, Learning, Intelligence

  Harper's Magazine, Vol. 154, (p. 730), 1927.

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• Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Family, Children, Love Is

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

  Jim Butcher

  Inspirational, Family, People

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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• If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for
  them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and
  it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to
  follow.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Important Values, People

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• What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

  Kevin Heath

  Kids, Ability To Love, Love Unconditionally

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• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

  James Dewar

  Funny, Education, Attitude

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• Ask the young. They know everything.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Children, Humorous

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

  Charles Wadsworth

  Funny, Hilarious, Father

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• ~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~

  Jodie Foster

  School, Boys, Thinking

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• Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Children, Sleep

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child's capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Believe, Expression

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• ~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

  Courteney Cox

  Daughter, Age, Want

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