Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Carl Jung

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

Betty Smith

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Quick meals, how to be supportive to our spouses, positive parenting styles and education.

I set up the site because, at the time, there weren't many parenting resources online,

Brad Meltzer

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

Juvenal

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Kourtney Kardashian

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

Debra Winger

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Barbara Bush

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Aristotle

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Aristotle

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Eddie Vedder

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Eliot Spitzer

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

Chuck Palahniuk

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Anne Lamott

Expectations are resentments under construction.

Amanda Peet

~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

Alvin Toffler

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Sukarno

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

Regina Brett

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

Stephenie Meyer

I gave you life. You’re wasting it.

Stephen Leacock

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

Stephen King

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

Thandie Newton

~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

Mayim Bialik

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

Plato

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

Sheryl Crow

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

But for parenting teens you need a whole new set of tools.

If women want to work and are more satisfied, the quality of their parenting is going to be better.

Jeffrey Eugenides

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

Erica Jong

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Jennifer Aniston

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.