Raising children Quotes · Page 11

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

— Jonathan Franzen

Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances…

— Candace Cameron

“But if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don't pretend to have all the answers on raising children (and outside of taking care of my own that I was…

— Cynthia Bailey

Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'…

— J. K. Rowling

“You raise boys to reject everything feminine then get mad when they become men who hate women.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work…

— Virginia Postrel

“Give a child too much freedom, and he’ll make you a child.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it…

— Diane Keaton

“Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Families are setting aside more money to buy school books every year, yet there is no budget for the Bible. Sad, isn’t…

— Benjamin Nzuki

Within pair-bonding situations its pertinent for copulating couples to relate; hence the word relationship. Pair-bonding comes in the form of marriage, domestic…

— Johnny Luckett

Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you…

— Steven Pacey

It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for…

— Sarah Ruhl

“Even in the little while she'd been teaching, she'd met parents who didn't seem to care about their children, regarding them as…

— Nicholas Sparks

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love…

— Angelina Jolie

“Who we were will be boldly illustrated in whatever our children became.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you…

— Matt Damon

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

— Glennon Melton

I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain. Consider all…

— Angelina Jolie

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

— Warren Farrell

How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the…

— Mary Blakely

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

— Bill Cosby

“It goes without saying that people who interact with your children will influence them. If they are godless, they will influence your…

— Benjamin Nzuki