Parenthood Quotes
293 quotes by 259 authors
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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
— Russell Baker
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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…
— Russell Baker
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
— Honore de Balzac
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
— Dave Barry
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I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.
— Cate Blanchett
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Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
— John Boehner
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Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and…
— Matthew Broderick
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I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on…
— Jeff Bridges
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We are the people our parents warned us about.
— Jimmy Buffett
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Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
— Richard Carmona
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
— Margaret Cho
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When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
— Woody Allen
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I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to…
— Woody Harrelson
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It's the best thing going, parenthood.
— Woody Harrelson
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I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.
— Ron Paul
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It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a…
— Kathy Lette
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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
— Ellen Goodman
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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
— Nancy Chodorow
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The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
— Mell Lazarus
Who Wrote These Parenthood Quotes
259 authors contributed a total of 293 Parenthood Quotes, led by these top contributors: