Parenting Quotes - Page 27

• As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Brother, Kids, Trials

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Reality, Light

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

  Evan Bayh

  Mother, Children, Single Mom

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• If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Children, Garden

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• When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Dog, Children

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• I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Talking, Littles

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• Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

  Louise Erdrich

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

  Matthew Broderick

  Funny, Baby, Views

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• The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Motivational, Education, Time

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

  Orson Scott Card

  Language Words, Silence, Tongue

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• I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

  Roseanne Barr

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

  Anthony Edwards

  Baby, Children, Father

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

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• I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

  Virginia Satir

  Past, Parenthood, Individual

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• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Relationship, Children, Second Chance

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• My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Children, Should Have

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• There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Family, Children

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• Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

  Russell Baker

  Children, Growing Up, Trying

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• And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Rooms

  In Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 1

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• Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

  Robert Cormier

  Family, Mother, Father

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• A mother who is really a mother is never free.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mothers Day, Parenthood, Mother Care

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Mean, Equality

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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

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• The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Family, Children

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.55, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

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