Raising children Quotes

On raising children:

— Denise Lanas

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

— Bill Cosby

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

— Bob Harper

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

— Nelson Mandela

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

— David Bly

A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water.

— Rudolf Dreikurs

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

— Frank Pittman

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“It's wrong and unhealthy to deny a child the world of make-believe.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I think a man and a woman, on a whole array of issues, including raising children, have differences, and then you work…

— Teresa Heinz

“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”

— John Wilmot

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

— Anne Lamott

I think there's been a big psychological shift in people my age raising children. The world that they are growing into requires…

— Asher Keddie

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

— George Will

Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

— Ian Dunbar

Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

— Christopher Gorham

I cared deeply about raising my children to be kind - and the majority of American moms and dads share that priority.

— Cynthia Germanotta

I love food, but I can't bear to read about it, to talk about it, to discuss the consequences and context of…

— Kim Brooks

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He…

— Abraham Lincoln

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire…

— Nicholas Sparks

It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when…

— Eda LeShan

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed…

— Gloria Steinem

I am very lucky to have a wife who supports me, but the absence from my children was difficult from the moment…

— Manuel Pellegrini

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very…

— Madonna Ciccone

Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but…

— Marilyn French

“[On how mothers are "doing the most important job" in the world by raising children]: If, in fact, it were the most…

— Linda R. Hirshman

“If I had a child, I wouldn't teach them a single thing about the culture I was raised in - instead I'll…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Any woman who has devoted herself to raising children has experienced the hollow praise that only thinly conceals smug dismissal. In a…

— Ann Crittenden

Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children.…

— Kenneth Keniston

“She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told…

— Neal Shusterman

The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before…

— Arnold Gesell

“Solitude takes time, and caregivers to children have no time. Our children demand attention and need care. They ask questions and parents…

— Gary Paul Nabhan

“One of the ridiculously difficult things about raising children is that they are constantly developing and changing so that just when you…

— Amy E. Spiegel

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

— Natalia Vodianova

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

— Hilary Rosen

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

— Bruno Bettelheim

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

— Margaret Culkin Banning

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

— Bil Keane

Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.

— Ann Romney

For life goes, not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

— Khalil Gibran