Quotes and Sayings about Parenting
"Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Equality, Parenting, Women, Abortion, Abuse, Independence, Poverty, Problems, Solution, Today)
"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
(Related: Work, Parenting, Power, Control, Occupation, Public, World)
"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Parenting, Behavior, Bizarre, Kids, Talking, Will)
"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 children."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Parenting, People, Childhood, Children)
"I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Experience, Parenting, Work, Secrets)
"Parenting is an impossible job at any age."
- Harrison Ford
(Related: Age, Parenting, Job)
"We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities."
- Fred G. Gosman
(Related: Love, Parenting, Optimism, Common sense, Disappointments, Focus)
"The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!"
- Louise Hart
(Related: Parenting, Children, Parents)
"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 and Gay community."
- Audre Lorde
(Related: Parenting, Community, Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Relationships)
"Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: Parenting, Job, Nation)
"I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Money, Parenting, People, Kids, Will)
"If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press."
- Henry Reed
(Related: Parenting, Power, Truth, Press)
"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
- Virginia Satir
(Related: Parenting, Past)
"Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals."
- Emma Thompson
(Related: Parenting, Dream, Goals, Learning, Listening, Space)
"I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit."
- Lisa Whelchel
(Related: Parenting, America, Games, Party, Play, Prizes, Talk, Weekend)