Best family & parenthood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.”

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Author:David Frost

“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.”

Source: Childhood's Future

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

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Author:Theodore Hesburgh

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“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.”

“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.”

“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.”

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

Source: At Home in the World: A Memoir

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”

“Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

“There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.”

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Author:Peter De Vries

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.”

“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.”

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”

“Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.”

“IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“The family is the country of the heart.”

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Book:The Duties of Man and Other Essays

Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays

“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”

“Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.”

“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.”

Source: Gone Girl

“The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero, the more righteous they will seem.”

Source: On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay

“Some men do not know the father of 'their' children.”

Source: On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

Source: Wealth of Words

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