Parenting Quotes

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

^{Erma Bombeck}

53. I suppose it’s amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

^{Steffi Graf}

54. 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.

^{Pauline Phillips}

55. Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected.

^{Robert Orben}

56. 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}

57. We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

^{Christopher Morley}

58. If you’re asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

^{Caitlyn Jenner}

59. We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

^{Roy L. Smith}

60. 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}

61. Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.

^{Robert Cormier}

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

^{Meryl Streep}

63. 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}

64. Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

^{John Boehner}

65. 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}

66. Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

^{Laura Schlessinger}

67. That’s my ideal day, time with my boys.

^{Kenny G}

68. The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

^{Kamisese Mara}

69. Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

^{P. J. O’Rourke}

70. 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}

71. 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}

72. I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

^{Beverly Cleary}

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

^{Miriam Makeba}

74. Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

^{Gloria Steinem}

75. Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

^{Robbie Coltrane}

76. Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

^{Muriel Spark}

77. Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

^{Todd Tiahrt}

78. I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

^{Susie Bright}

79. The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

^{Benjamin Spock}

80. Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

^{Doug Larson}

81. To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt.

^{Olivia Newton-John}

82. What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

^{Marlee Matlin}

83. 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 cango out.

^{Matthew Broderick}

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

^{Norma Shearer}

85. Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I’m not working I’m cool with the Teletubbies.

^{Clive Owen}

86. Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don’t want to go to PTA meetings.

^{Stevie Nicks}

87. I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

^{Robert Orben}

88. Having children with someone is the real bond.

^{Francesca Annis}

89. What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

^{Marjorie Holmes}

90. I’d just as soon stay home and raise babies.

^{June Allyson}

91. The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

^{Polly Berrien Berends}

92. Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult.

^{David Frost}

93. The unconditional love for you child, it’s truly amazing.

^{Jourdan Dunn}

94. I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

^{Tina Turner}

95. I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

^{Gloria Swanson}

96. Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

^{Lynn Johnston}

97. 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}

98. Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

^{Russell Baker}

99. Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

^{Christy Turlington}

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

^{Phyllis Diller}

101. My father wasn’t really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

^{Marion Jones}

102. 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}

103. I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he’s genuinely interested in what she’s going through.

^{Harry Connick, Jr.}