Raising Children Quotes - Page 8

• Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Purpose, Institutions

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• Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

  Chris Christie

  Mom, Brother, Children

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Children, Needs

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• If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

  Bette Davis

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Divorce, Parent

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

  Children, Separation, Ends

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• The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

  Thomas Perez

  Running, Children, Typical

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• Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.

  Larry Elder

  Jobs, Children, Kind

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• Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.

  Katharine Weymouth

  Mom, Children, Kids

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• I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

  Jim Carrey

  Respect, Children, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, School, Boys

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.172, Library of America

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• Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.

  Anna Quindlen

  Memories, Children, Car

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• When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.

  Willard Gaylin

  Children, Mean, Commitment

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• The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Intelligent, Thinking

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• When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Girl, Children, Stranger

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.54, Vintage

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• If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.

  Barbara Holland

  Bullying, Children, Cat

  Barbara Holland (1989). “Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives”

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• For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Parenting, Yesterday, Bows And Arrows

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'

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• How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the chances to recover and try again? How does one break the news that nothing permanent can be formed in an instant--children are not weaned, potty trained, taught manners, introduced to civilization in one or two tries--as everyone imagined.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Mistake, Opportunity

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• Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their children's needs and their own values.... We must address ourselves less to the criticism and reform of parents themselves than to the criticism and reform of the institutions that sap their self-esteem and power.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Self Esteem, Responsibility

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Believe, Trying

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.323, Hoover Press

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• Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.

  Judy Woodruff

  Children, Journey, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Football, Children, Couple

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• I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

  Tyler Perry

  Children, Husband, Thinking

  "Q&A – Tyler Perry Defends the Schizophrenia of Why Did I Get Married Too?". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Important, Tools

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course your children come first; of course you come last; today's children need constant attention, cultivation, and adoration, or they'll become failures and hate you forever; you don't want to fail at that; it's easier for mothers to abandon their work and their dreams than for fathers; you don't want it all anymore (which is good because you can't have it all); who cares about equality, you're too tired; and whoops--here we are in 1954.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mother, Dream, Children

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