Parenthood Quotes - Page 16

• Life's what happens when you're making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Background Noise, Busy, American Gods

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• Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

  Homer

  Depression, Teaching, Names

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• Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Parenting, Inspire

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• Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Sex, Children

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls' education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Girl, Teacher, Children

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• It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.

  Eric Cantor

  Abortion, Dollars, Purpose

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 10, 2011.

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• A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Men, Parent

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• Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

  James E. Faust

  Marriage, Others Happiness, Thousand

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• Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!

  Richard Bach

  Country, Evil, Parent

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• There's never been a parent in my life.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Parent

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• You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

  Patricia Richardson

  Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

  Ann Voskamp

  Mothering, Hardest, Happens

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• I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'

  Mae Whitman

  Fans, Development, Incredibles

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

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• Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

  Ted Yoho

  Names, Cliffs, Hindsight

  "Upset winner isn't horsing around" by Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.

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• That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Blessed, Circles, Proud

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.80, Conari Press

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• I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.

  Ben Marcus

  Kids, Play, Ideas

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• Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.

  Polly Toynbee

  Women, Mean, Ideas

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• Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Children, Divorce, Hatred

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

  Cecile Richards

  Impact, Doctors, Law

  "Ending the Silence That Fuels Abortion Stigma" by Cecile Richards, www.elle.com. October 16, 2014.

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• Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Mother, Powerful

  Rita Mae Brown (2007). “Full Cry: A Novel”, p.329, Ballantine Books

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• Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

  Stephen King

  Skills, Fake, Bars

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• [On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Work Out, Mind, Can't Change

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• No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship Love, Marriage Love, Humans

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.

  Anne Truitt

  Separation, Ends, Implicit

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

  Bruce Hutchison

  Son, Errors, May

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