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136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes

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Oh wow, you're thinking of becoming a parent? Is that why you've googled parenting quotes? Or perhaps you're looking for quotes about parenting because you're still not sure whether that's the path of life you want to pursue? If that's so, buddy, you've landed on the right page. But before we delve into an exhaustive list of inspiring, eye-opening, or simply heartwarming parenthood quotes, let's explore the topic a little more.

Suppose you've found yourself on this page. In that case, I assume you're mature and old enough to understand what sexual intercourse is and what it was initially “invented” for. Pleasure and enjoyment are essential; however, reproduction (unusual to see this word here rather than in a biology book, huh?) is the primary function. We, humans, are mammals who depend on reproduction to survive and carry the only human species left today - the homo sapiens. However, we no longer look at it this way. People opt to have children not necessarily because they want someone to carry their family name but rather to experience parenthood's joy and the (enriching) challenge of it.

While there are many reasons people opt to have kids, there's something special, even magical, about creating and bringing up another human. It's almost a godlike feature. People are in a position to "construct" a living human being, and if that's not one of the most powerful things a human can do, I don't know what is. Nonetheless, it's in our control to decide whether we become parents or not (parent to a furry friend counts, too). Family is everything; however, a family is no longer the traditional definition of a mom, dad, and their offspring. The family is a single mom or a single dad, a couple with no children, a person and a child adopted by them, etc. It's up to us which family mode we pursue. And whichever is welcome and "right."

One could come up with a thousand quotes about family or quotes about parents and the joys and challenges that are brought by becoming and being one. And they would be equally important and valid because although the parenthood experience is comparable, it's also very unique. And although not nearly a thousand, we have selected plenty of family quotes for you to read and scroll through. If some of these parenthood or being a parent quotes have given you food for thought, share your reflections!

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#1

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." - Franklin P. Jones

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136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum

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#3

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it." - Russell Baker

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#4

"The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!" - Louise Hart

31points

Lizzy James 2 years ago

I wish I could upvote this more than once

4points

#5

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass

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#6

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built." - James Dobson

28points

#7

"Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime." - Red Skelton

28points

The Cute Cat 2 years ago

Lol.. Not my kids..

4points

#8

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny." - Ben Stein

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Kitten Dog Mom 2 years ago

We were never yelled at (4 of us). We did get the “over the eyeglasses look from our Dad, but we were asked how they (parents) could help us understand the subject matter to help bring the grades up.

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#9

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult." - David Frost

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#10

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth." - Jennifer Aniston

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#11

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." - John F. Kennedy

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#12

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach." - Caitlyn Jenner

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#13

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted." - Garrison Keillor

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#14

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult." - Nadia Boulanger

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#15

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting." - Carl Hart

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Shawn Matalino 2 years ago

My mom's always told me that I'd never do anything that she hadn't already done better.

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#16

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it." - Frank A. Clark

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Jerrie TC Baxton 2 years ago

Unfortunately, they do. The idea that a grown up person can be taught love is for movies and fairy tales; it never works in real life, no matter what somebody might tell you. It's like building a house without the basement and trying to fit it in after the house is done: it's never really a genuine part of the house.

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#17

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk." - Carl Jung

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#18

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves." - Henry Ward Beecher

22points

Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago

That is quite a loaded statement. The pendulum could swing either way; but either way, the truth is revealed.

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136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone." - Billy Graham

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Brendan Docherty 2 years ago

Do I have to send money to Billy for reading his quote?

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#20

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching." - Roy L. Smith

21points

Bear Family 1 year ago

And thus my attitude about politics, religion (esp American Christianity) is well summed up. I've heard their words but I've also seen their actions.

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#21

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Too many people treat parenting like it's the 20th item on their to-do list." - John Kennedy

20points

Russell Birad 2 years ago

They gave birth to me to make them money lol

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#22

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting." - Barbara Bush

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#23

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "My kid is turning out just like me. Well played, karma. Well-played."

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#24

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do." - Mitt Romney

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Russell Birad 2 years ago

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#25

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship." - Laura Schlessinger

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#26

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity." - Roberto Benigni

19points

#27

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision." - Denis Waitley

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#28

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up." - Christopher Morley

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#29

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up." - Jillian Michaels

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#30

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult." - Ewan McGregor

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#31

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules." - Anna Quindlen

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#32

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station." - Robbie Coltrane

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#33

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes “A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.” - Jerry Seinfeld

18points

#34

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity." - Rose Kennedy

17points

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#35

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options." - Robert Webb

17points

Mari Boning 2 years ago

I noticed how exaggerated the gendered clothing is for both boys and girls... When my son was a toddler, it was often challenge to just find my son a shirt without words and pictures on it.

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#36

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity." - Rumaan Alam

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#37

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes “Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.” - Ray Romano

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#38

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "90% of parenting is just thinking about when you can lie down again."

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#39

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is." - Irene Rosenfeld

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#40

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore." - Ogden Nash

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#41

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering." - Benjamin Spock

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#42

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride." - Ron Taffel

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#43

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain." - Martin Mull

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#44

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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#45

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending." - Virginia Satir

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#46

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "A mother who is really a mother is never free." - Honore de Balzac

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#47

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children." - Steffi Graf

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#48

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through." - Harry Connick, Jr.

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Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago

Or... just BE genuinely interested. Actions speak louder than words.

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#49

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals." - Emma Thompson

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#50

136 Of The Most Powerful And Enriching Parenting Quotes "I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze." - Tori Spelling

16points

#51

"As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job." - Roseanne Barr

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flutterbyy 2 years ago

The Barr is too low here.

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#52

"Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life." - Muriel Spark

15points

#53

"I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence." - Brooke Shields

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#54

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them." - P. J. O'Rourke

15points

Lukesea FreakingGreen 2 years ago

Like having money... But except raising its handling

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#55

"Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings." - Kelly LeBrock

15points

#56

"The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive." - Angela Duckworth

15points

#57

"Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships." - Robert J. Waldinger

15points

Bear Family 1 year ago (edited)

Spot on!!!

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#58

"Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age." - Jennifer Aniston

15points

Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago

And yet, it truely takes a villiage.

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#59

"I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage." - Mika Brzezinski

15points

#60

“Becoming a mom to me means that you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” - Nia Vardalos

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Bear Family 1 year ago

And your car and your house will frequently be a mess too.

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#61

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” - Milton Berle

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#62

"Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little." - Tori Amos

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#63

"Parenting is no sport for perfectionists." - Andrew Solomon

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#64

"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

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#65

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." - Charles R. Swindoll

14points

#66

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." - Sigmund Freud

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#67

"The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears." - Phil McGraw

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#68

"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being." - Miriam Makeba

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#69

"My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning." - Gena Lee Nolin

14points

#70

"There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them." - Anthony Edwards

14points

#71

"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter." - Meryl Streep

14points

#72

"Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out." - Matthew Broderick

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#73

"To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt." - Olivia Newton-John

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#74

"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home." - Robert Orben

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Shiroiko 2 years ago

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#75

"It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei." - Cindy Crawford

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#76

"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours." - Rita Rudner

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#77

"Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being." - Evan Bayh

14points

#78

"The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do." - Helena Bonham Carter

14points

#79

"I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed." - Tamora Pierce

14points

#80

"Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose." - Mayim Bialik

14points

#81

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing." - Phyllis Diller

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#82

"Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting." - Rachel Simmons

14points

#83

"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence." - Plato

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#84

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth." - Peter Ustinov

13points

#85

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted." - Walter Scott

13points

#86

"I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself." - Rosa Salazar

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#87

"My approach to parenting is the same as my approach to life: it's all about putting in the hours and working hard." - Perez Hilton

13points

#88

"I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict." - Amy Chua

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#89

"I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting." - Alexandra Fuller

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#90

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.” - Erma Bombeck

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#91

"The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable." - Lane Olinghouse

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#92

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." - Jackie Kennedy

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#93

"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed." - Luther Burbank

12points

#94

"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become." - Coretta Scott King

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#95

"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it." - Quentin Crisp

12points

#96

"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur." - Alvin Toffler

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#97

"Every cliché about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy." - Liam Neeson

12points

#98

"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?" - Ellen Goodman

12points

#99

"Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating." - Bob Filner

12points

#100

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children." - George Bernard Shaw

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#101

"Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes." - Richard Louv

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#102

"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going." - Phyllis Diller

12points

#103

"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine." - Allan Bloom

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#104

"I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!" - Andy Serkis

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#105

"With parenting, like any other skill in life, practice makes perfect." - Jo Swinson

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#106

"Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children." - Brene Brown

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#107

"I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam." - Debra Winger

12points

#108

"The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms." - Bill O'Reilly

12points

#109

"Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways." - Dennis Miller

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#110

"I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself." - Emily Oster

12points

#111

"My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that." - Andrew Lincoln

12points

#112

"Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren." - Emily V. Gordon

12points

#113

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth." - Erma Bombeck

11points

#114

"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly." - Miguel de Cervantes

11points

Shiroiko 2 years ago

Yes they have other words for that

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#115

"Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives." - Polly Berrien Berends

11points

#116

"My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education." - John H. Johnson

11points

#117

"I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin." - Norma Shearer

11points

#118

"Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies." - Clive Owen

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#119

"Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice." - Sundar Pichai

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Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago

If they are on the phone when they eat and otherwise not, that's a small amount of time comparatively. Besides, what else are you going to do while you eat, converse? You're not supposed to talk with food in your mouth.

1point

#120

"If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press." - Henry Reed

11points

#121

"No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot." - Fiona Apple

11points

#122

"The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror." - Brene Brown

11points

#123

"We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss." - Julia Cameron

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#124

"I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith." - Jodi Benson

11points

#125

"It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert." - Adam Mansbach

11points

#126

"Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend." - Stephen Mangan

10points

#127

"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father." - Gloria Steinem

10points

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#128

"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it." - Marlee Matlin

10points

#129

"Kids are fat because of lack of parenting." - Ben Shapiro

10points

#130

"Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children." - George Will

10points

#131

"Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy." - Jenna Morasca

10points

#132

"Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting." - Pamela Adlon

10points

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#133

"I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book." - Bruce Feiler

9points

#134

"Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child." - Dave Morris

9points

#135

"There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children." - Andrew Shue

8points

#136

"I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys." - Josie Bissett

7points

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