Parenting Quotes

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. — Bill Cosby
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. — Bill Cosby
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no… — Bill Cosby
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed… — Bill Cosby
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… — Cindy Crawford
I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school… — Cindy Crawford
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. — Quentin Crisp
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up… — Sloane Crosley
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your… — Sloane Crosley
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. — Rodney Dangerfield
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. — Clarence Darrow
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. — Bette Davis
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children. — Princess Diana
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as… — Charles Dickens
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. — Phyllis Diller
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. — Phyllis Diller
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down… — Phyllis Diller
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. — Phyllis Diller
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation… — James Dobson
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. — Frederick Douglass

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