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
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
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
The Strong Family
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant, 1968
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
The Business of Life, 1949
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Social Studies
Social Studies
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
New York Times, 26 August 1971
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
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
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
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
Fatherhood, 1986
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood, 1986
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
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