Parenthood Quotes

293 quotes by 258 authors

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. — Marian Wright Edelman
I don't think anyone masters parenthood. — Melissa Etheridge
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. — William Feather
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood. — Vera Farmiga
Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow… — Jane Fonda
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a… — Lee Haney
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… — Patricia Heaton
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. — Thomas Jefferson
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. — P.D. James
Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to spoil them. I just enjoy everything that… — Curtis Joseph
Children need models rather than critics. — Joseph Joubert
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. — Carl Jung
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that… — Carl Jung
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. — Leon Kass
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. — Coretta Scott King
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that… — Jessica Lange
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. — Sam Levenson
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them… — Anne Sullivan Macy
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. — Miriam Makeba
If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough.… — Michelle Malkin

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