Parenthood Quotes - Page 17

• Kids take up all available time - it's the basic law of parenthood. No matter how much time you give them, whether you work from eight to eight or are around the house all the time, you'll still feel you haven't been there enough for them.

  Myrna Blyth

  Children, Kids, Eight

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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, Parenting

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• Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

  John Boehner

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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• I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

  Jeff Bridges

  Being Happy, Party, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Parent, Choices, Kind

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Family, Feelings

  Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. May 30, 1996.

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• Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Military, Parent

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

  Jessica Lange

  Motivational, Family, Mom

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• Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

  Joe Manchin

  Family, Teacher, Children

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• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  Kamisese Mara

  Fun, Hard Work, Parenting

  Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand, July 26, 1999.

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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, Parenting

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

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Family, Children

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• Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Parenting, Single Child

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

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• Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

  Jillian Michaels

  Growing Up, Sacrifice, Sissy

  "An Overdue Apology To Moms, From A Fitness Guru" by Lisa Belkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

  Margaret Sanger

  Population, Inheritance, May

  Margaret Sanger, Esther Katz (2007). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Children, Real, Blessed

  "Walk The Line - Reese Witherspoon interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Parenting, Opiates, Mass

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Curves, Years

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiring, Children, Heart

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• It's not Planned Parenthood. No, it's planned genocide. You can quote me on that.

  Herman Cain

  Genocide, Planned Parenthood

  "Herman Cain: "It’s Not Planned Parenthood - No, It’s Planned Genocide". Interview with Fred Lucas, www.cnsnews.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.

  Ron Paul

  Taxpayers, Newts, Funding

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