Parenting Quotes - Page 7

• The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time

  Kevin Heath

  Children, Giving, Investment

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• I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.

  Susan Sarandon

  Jobs, Kids, Happy Life

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• Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

  Christy Turlington

  Children, Kids, Order

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• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Bitterness, Wonder

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• He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

  John Lennon

  Children, Ocean, Sleep

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fatherhood". Book by Kevin Osborn, p. 134, October 1, 1999.

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• My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

  Gena Lee Nolin

  Good Morning, Smile, Children

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• Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

  Clive Owen

  Family, Inspiring, Firsts

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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Knowledge, Reality

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (1951). “Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis”

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• It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Disappointment, Kids, Inspire

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• Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

  Martin Mull

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

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

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• If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Life, Children, Learning

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• I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.

  Tim McGraw

  Mother, Daughter, Kids

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• Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Children, Next

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• That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

  Ursula Hegi

  Children, Love You, Unrequited Love

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• First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

  Jurgen Prochnow

  Children, Firsts, Quiet

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• The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

  Stephen Leacock

  Boys, Shakes, Sells

  1916 Further Foolishness,'The Lot of the Schoolmaster'.

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• Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Integrity, Teaching

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• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

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• It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspiring, Mom, Dad

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• Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Children, Food

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Dream, Children

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.39, BookBaby

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• By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Father, Pride, Soldier

  "Reminiscence".

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• The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mom, Mother, Growing Up

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Father

  "A New Egalitarian Life Style". www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1971.

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