Famous 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. on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.
- Tori Spelling on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
- Audre Lorde on Parenting
- I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.
- June Allyson on Parenting
- I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
- Hector Elizondo on Parenting
- I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.
- Lisa Whelchel on Parenting
- I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.
- Eric McCormack on Parenting
- I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
- Eddie Vedder on Parenting
- I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
- Barbara Bush on Parenting
- I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.
- Mayim Bialik on Parenting
- I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
- Liza Minnelli on Parenting
- If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
- Henry Reed on Parenting
- If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
- Bruce Jenner on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
- Padma Lakshmi on Parenting
- Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
- Emma Thompson on Parenting
- It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
- Abigail Van Buren on Parenting
- It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
- Anne Sullivan on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
- Patricia Heaton on Parenting
- Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
- Jonathan Safran Foer on Parenting
- Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
- David Frost on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
- Lynn Johnston on Parenting
- Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
- Gloria Steinem on Parenting
- Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
- Phyllis Diller on Parenting
- 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.
- 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 on Parenting
- My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
- Bill Cosby on Parenting
- My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.
- Gena Lee Nolin on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
- Marion Jones on Parenting
- My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
- Sloane Crosley on Parenting
- My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?
- Robbie Coltraine on Parenting
- My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
- Isabelle Huppert on Parenting
- My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
- Quentin Crisp on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
- Erma Bombeck on Parenting
- No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Parenting
- No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
- Bill Cosby on Parenting
- No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
- Marcelene Cox on Parenting
- No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
- Fiona Apple on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
- Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
- Jennifer Aniston on Parenting
- 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 on Parenting
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