Parenting Quotes - Page 23

• If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Mean

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• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, Responsibility, Maturity

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• The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Lying, Mean

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• Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

  L. Tom Perry

  Powerful, Home, Motherhood

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• The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

  Charles de Lint

  Funny, Children, Problem

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must
  teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their
  appreciation of their obligation to others.

  Clarence Page

  Appreciation, Children, Fabric

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• The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

  John Mortimer

  Children, Good Life, Work

  "Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged" by L.M. Boyd, www.sfgate.com. May 13, 1995.

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• I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Children, Cat, Should Have

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Wings, Roots

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• I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

  Roseanne Barr

  Jobs, Kids, The End Of The Day

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• The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

  Arnold Bennett

  Children, Parents Love, Funny Parent

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• My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

  Joan Rivers

  Memories, Motherhood, Childhood

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.13, Penguin

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• My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

  Joan Rivers

  Cousin, Motherhood, Birth

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• Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

  Joan Rivers

  Motherhood, Eggs, Watches

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• Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

  Nancy Chodorow

  Inspire, World, Occupation

  Nancy Chodorow (1978). “The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender”, p.31, Univ of California Press

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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Speech, Public Speaking

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• What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

  Philo

  Family, Children, World

  "The Works of Philo Judaeus".

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

  June Allyson

  Inspiring, Baby, Stay Strong

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• To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character.

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Little girls love dolls. They just don't love dolls clothes

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Girl, Clothes, Dolls

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• And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Motherhood, Glasses

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Deluxe”, p.19, Penguin

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• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Peace, Buddhist

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• We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

  Plato

  Children, Plato, Perfect

  Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.82, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

  Plato

  Leadership, Children, Humorous

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• When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Children, Humorous

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