Parenting Quotes

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. — John F. Kennedy
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging… — Rose Kennedy
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. — Jean Kerr
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
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. — Barbara Kingsolver
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. — Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard Kipling
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. — Rudyard Kipling
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. — Fran Lebowitz
Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. — Fran Lebowitz
You're not famous until my mother has heard of you. — Jay Leno
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. — Sam Levenson
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. — Sam Levenson
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. — John Locke
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian… — Audre Lorde
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. — Anne Sullivan Macy
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

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