Parenthood Quotes - Page 7

• Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Sleep, Classic

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 18, 2011.

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• Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Art, Parent, Invention

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2014). “The Critic”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

  Connie Sellecca

  Children, Parenting, Support

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• Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Parent, Ramp, Terrible

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Dad, Father

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

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• Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the childs viewing to a certain point.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Children, Parent, Important

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• Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

  Rose Kennedy

  Mother, Baby, Single Mom

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• The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Inspiring, Wise

  Herbert Spencer (1865). “First Principles of a New System of Philosophy”, p.123

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• It's the best thing going, parenthood.

  Woody Harrelson

  Dad, Best Things

  "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

  Ron Paul

  Crazy, Government, Abortion

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• It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won't sit next to his sister because of 'Girl Germs'.

  Kathy Lette

  Girl, Dog, Morning

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• The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

  Paul Reiser

  Inspirational, Funny, Transition

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• The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.

  Heber J. Grant

  Father, Men, Maturity

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• Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

  Robert MacNeil

  Uplifting, Children, Heart

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• Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

  Richard Whately

  Memories, Parent, Curiosity

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491

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• There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

  Frank A. Clark

  Children, Christian Inspirational, Trying

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• I believe that a parents role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

  David Soul

  Children, Believe, Opportunity

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• The family is the country of the heart.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Family, Country, Heart

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Generosity, Events, Meals

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• Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

  Bob Marshall

  Abortion, Privilege, Magazines

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• However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

  Valerie Harper

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Adoption

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• Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Years, Adults

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• I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Birthday, Inspiring, Children

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• Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

  Robert Breault

  Parent, Funny Mothers Day, Passing

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• Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.

  E.W. Jackson

  Party, Rights, Kkk

  "Virginia Republicans nominate Tea Party favorite for lieutenant governor" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2013.

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