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Quotations About Parenting

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
Women and Beauty


Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats
Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear


Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
The Strong Family


My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant, 1968


Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather
The Business of Life, 1949


Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Social Studies


Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
New York Times, 26 August 1971


The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward, Duke of Windsor
Look, 5 March 1957


It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn
Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994


If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
C.G. Jung
Integration of the Personality, 1939


No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood, 1986


Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood, 1986


It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams


The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker


If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
Bob Golic


Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Chinese Proverb


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


You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones


Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck


If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein


Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold Hulbert