Best Raising Children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?”

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Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

“As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.”

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Author:Hilary Rosen

“With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.”

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Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.”

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Author:Maria Sharapova

“I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

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

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

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Author:Jim Valvano

“I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.”

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Author:George Will

“Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.”

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Author:John Wilmot

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.”

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Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

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

“Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant memories for the future…If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled, will disappear all too soon, and that you will, to your surprise, miss them, profoundly.”

“I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.”

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Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

Source: Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness

“Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.”

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Book:The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.”

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Book:The Corrections: A Novel

Source: The Corrections: A Novel

“Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course your children come first; of course you come last; today's children need constant attention, cultivation, and adoration, or they'll become failures and hate you forever; you don't want to fail at that; it's easier for mothers to abandon their work and their dreams than for fathers; you don't want it all anymore (which is good because you can't have it all); who cares about equality, you're too tired; and whoops--here we are in 1954.”

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”

Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

“Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.”

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Book:Shanghai Girls

Source: Shanghai Girls

“A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.”

“It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.”

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Author:Daniel Handler

“She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.”

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Book:Deeper Than the Dead

Source: Deeper Than the Dead

“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.”

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Author:Mem Fox

“One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”

Source: Fatherhood

“The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.”

“We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment”

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Author:Brené Brown

“If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.”

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Author:Fulton J. Sheen

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

“I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.”

“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.”

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Author:Dee Dee Myers

“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation”

“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be”

“Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.”

Source: Leaving the Light On: Building the Memories That Will Draw Kids Home

“Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.”

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Author:E. W. Howe

“The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.”

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Book:Double Falsehood: Third Series

Source: Double Falsehood: Third Series

“Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.”

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Author:Mamie Van Doren

“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it”

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Author:Robert Breault

“The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.”

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