Parenting Quotes

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

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

Work, Family, Hard

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones

Patience, Children, Learn

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel de Cervantes

Children, Mothers, Ugly

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.
Connie Sellecca

Children, Support, Healthy

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

Power, Parents, Child

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Bruce Jenner

Kids, Exercise, Practice

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
Cindy Crawford

Change, After, Body

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.
Abigail Van Buren

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler

Greatest, Single, Remains

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
Benjamin Spock

Good, Best, After

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

Family, Cool, Working

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
Kelly LeBrock

Success, Happy, Human

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

Education, Work, Family

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
Marion Jones

Life, Mom, Father

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
Liza Minnelli

Dreams, Future, Mother

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

Success, Wise, Children

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

Life, Family, Great

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash

Happy, Children, Parents

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.
Alan Thicke

Family, Time, Fitness

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
Milton Sapirstein

Education, Home, Begins

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
Reese Witherspoon

Blessed, Children, Real

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Marcelene Cox

Character, True, Until

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

Mother, Father, Children

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
Andrew Shue

Home, Children, United

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