Parenthood Quotes - Page 9

• I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

  Rob Reiner

  Children, Reality, Years

  7 Copy quote

• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  Felicity Huffman

  Commitment, Organization, Issues

  "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Connie Sellecca

  Children, Parenting, Support

  46 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

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

  David Soul

  Children, Believe, Opportunity

  10 Copy quote

• Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag.

  Karen Handel

  Bully, Bags, Punching

  6 Copy quote

• Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.

  Michael Gerson

  Humility, Sacrifice, Stories

  4 Copy quote
• 

  The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

  Jim Henson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Karma

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

  104 Copy quote

  Show source

• That looks like something out of the dumpster of planned parenthood.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Looks

  11 Copy quote

• I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies

  June Allyson

  Inspiring, Baby, Stay Strong

  5 Copy quote

• I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide.

  Kathleen Turner

  Sex, Real, Women

  5 Copy quote

• Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Daughter, Cost

  4 Copy quote

• The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.

  John L. Harper

  Science, Theory Of Evolution, People

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

  Nancy Atherton

  Children, Suffering, Faces

  Nancy Atherton (1998). “Aunt Dimity's Good Deed”, p.152, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

  Marion Jones

  Mom, Mother, Father

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Children, Impossible, Without You

  5 Copy quote

• In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Art, Children, Moving

  7 Copy quote

• It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom
  Of having children after having had them,
  So there is nothing we can do about it
  But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

  Robert Frost

  Children, Should Have, Choices

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.

  Joyce Maynard

  Running, Jobs, Water

  4 Copy quote

• Terrorists cut people's heads off and that's what they do in the Planned Parenthood clinics.

  Mike Huckabee

  Cutting, People, Terrorist

  5 Copy quote

• Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?

  C. Sommerville

  Children, War, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

  Cecile Richards

  Years, Birth Control, Illegal

  "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

  Arna Bontemps

  Parent, Dare, Critics

  Arna Wendell Bontemps (1973). “The Old South: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties”, Dodd Mead

  20 Copy quote

  Show source