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Author:Russell Baker

“Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.”

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Book:Growing up

Source: Growing up

“A lot of the problems of parenthood are universal. Yes, it's harder being younger and growing up yourself, but all those anxieties and problems are going to be faced by anyone at any age. When people hear about teenage parents and teenage pregnancy, they attribute a lot of personality traits to those individuals, which is just such a bizarre thing when you really think about it. Like, how does age and circumstance equate to some kind of personality trait?”

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Author:Aisling Loftus

“Hillary clinton lied about Planned Parenthood and all these mammograms they do and all these precancer checks. They don't do a single mammogram, folks. They do not do them. They don't do checks for cancer. Their solution to everything at Planned Parenthood is an abortion. She lied through her teeth. I don't know if Donald Trump knows that or not. Most people who, "Oh, great work, mammograms, care for women." They don't do anything of the sort. They harvest baby parts and sell them! We now know that.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.”

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Author:Meghan Daum

“Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most utopias end and by some measure fail. And just because they're a failure doesn't mean there isn't value there.”

Mean Values Failing Parenthood Utopia

Author:Lauren Groff

“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.”

“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”

“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.”

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Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.”

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Author:Michelle Malkin

“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.”

“A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.”

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Author:Joe Manchin

“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

“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.”

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Author:Kamisese Mara

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

Easy Parent Difficulty Obstacles Parenthood Just Do It

Author:Marlee Matlin

“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

“I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.”

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Book:My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry

Source: My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry

“Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.”

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Author:Liam Neeson

“I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.”

Parent Careers Comedy Parenthood Traps Boost

Author:Maureen O'Hara

“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”

Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

“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.”

“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”

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Book:Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“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

“The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.”

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Author:Tony Parsons

“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.”

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Author:Abigail Van Buren

“Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.”

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Author:Keri Russell

“The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.”

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Author:Maurice Saatchi

“Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.”

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Author:Virginia Satir

“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

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

“I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.”

Thinking Want Children Hands Wonderful Example Your Children Parenthood Fulfilled Balancing Act

Author:Michael Sheen

“I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.”

Thinking Mother Inspiring Daughter Rebellion My Daughter Parenthood Adolescence

Author:Brooke Shields

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

“I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.”

Thinking Changed Parenthood

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.”

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Author:Alan Thicke

“The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.”

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Author:Todd Tiahrt

“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”

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Book:future shock

Source: future shock

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.”

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Book:The Letters of Anthony Trollope

Source: The Letters of Anthony Trollope

“It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.”

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Book:Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel

Source: Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”

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Author:Peter De Vries

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

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Author:Peter De Vries

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

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Author:John Boehner

“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.”

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Author:Robbie Williams

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