Parenting Quotes - Page 24

• Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Children, Vain, Said

  "Cancer Ward".

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• (About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

  Anne Tyler

  Drama, Broken, Littles

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• I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

  John Lennon

  Night, Wow, Incredibles

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• We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Father, Sorrow, Contentment

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• Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

  John Lennon

  Growing Up, Want, Wells

  "Ticket to Ride : Inside the Beatles' 1964 Tour That Changed the World". Book by Larry Kane, 2003.

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• Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.

  H. David Burton

  Running, Children, Honesty

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• The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Discovery, Inspire

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

  Theognis of Megara

  Children, Greatest Treasure, Advice

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• When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

  Helen Hayes

  Beautiful, Daughter, Fathers Day

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• I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner

  Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

  Dale Archer

  Children, Class, Inspire

  "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

  Carl Honore

  Sports, Kids, Journey

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• The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

  Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Inspiration

  "Small and Simple Things". Book by Marjorie Pay Hinckley, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2003.

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• I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.

  Jessica Valenti

  Lying, Thinking, People

  "'Why Have Kids?' author on parenting's contradictions". Interview with Sharon Jayson, www.usatoday.com. September 3, 2012.

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• (Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

  James Thurber

  Children, Cartoon, Firsts

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• I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Mom, Party, Weekend

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

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• How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

  Voltaire

  Dad, Children, Father

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• If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

  Henry Reed

  Movement, Presses, Ifs

  Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.260, We Publish Books

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• Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

  Grant Hill

  Appreciate, Littles, Strict

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• Kindness effects more than severity.

  Aesop

  Kindness, Effects, Severity

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

  Lisa Alther

  Children, Issues, Teeth

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.362, Open Road Media

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• Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

  Isocrates

  Children, Parent, Your Children

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• I had lots of hurt and lots of pain, lots of woundedness, bruises, broken heartedness in my life. I was abused sexually by my father, abused mentally, emotionally. My mom didn't know what to do about it, and she was being hurt in the process. So she just didn't deal with it. And I can guarantee you, just because you don't deal with something, that doesn't make it go away.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mom, Hurt, Pain

  "The Larry King Live Show", edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Growing Up, Kids, People

  "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". Movie Web interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

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• We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Children, Dangerous World, Punishment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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