Quotes on parents
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
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Elizabeth Stone Quotes
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
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Homer Quotes
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.
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Sloan Wilson Quotes
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.
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Walter Scott Quotes
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
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Lawrence Housman Quotes
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying.(Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.
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P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
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Frank A. Clark Quotes
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
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Billy Cosby Quotes
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.
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R.D. Laing Quotes
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection.
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Frank H. Cheley Quotes
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Jesse Jackson Quotes
Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of.
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Bruce Lansky Quotes
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
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Mell Lazarus Quotes
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
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William D. Tammeus Quotes
Smack your child every day. If you don't know why, he does.
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Joey Adams Quotes
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.
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Karen Brown Quotes
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.
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Raymond Duncan Quotes
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
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Bill Dodds Quotes
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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Haim Ginott Quotes
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
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Hodding Carter Quotes
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.
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C.G. Jung Quotes
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.
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Marcelene Cox Quotes
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
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Lane Olinghouse Quotes
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
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Woody Allen Quotes
I mean, listen, Mom and Dad love children in the Muslim world just like we do in America, and they've got to understand that - that there are some common beliefs that we share that will make - and the Peace Corps is a good way to spread that message.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
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Jean Kerr Quotes
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids.
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Bill Cosby Quotes
Kids spell love T-I-M-E.
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John Crudele Quotes
A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.
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John Andrew Holmes Quotes
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
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Erma Bombeck Quotes
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
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Erma Bombeck Quotes
Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.
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Author Unknown Quotes
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
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Bette Davis Quotes
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
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Roger Lewin Quotes
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.
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Dave Barry Quotes
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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H. Jackson Brown Quotes
Children have more need of models than of critics.
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Carolyn Coats Quotes
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
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George A. Dorsey Quotes
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
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Buddy Hackett Quotes
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
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Lionel Kauffman Quotes
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
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Polish Proverb Quotes
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Although there are many trial marriages, there is no such thing as a trial child.
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Gail Sheehy Quotes
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Benjamin Spock Quotes
In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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