Quotes About Coddling

#1. I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.

Amy Chua

#2. That's what best friends did for each other. No coddling, just straight talk, mockery, and having each other's back. And providing vodka when necessary and not pregnant.

L.B. Gregg

#3. When your fate is predetermined, there's not much benefit in coddling.

Amy Engel

#4. I know you, Ruth Ann Carver. I know you better than you know yourself. You think you do things right. You think you're a paragon of right living. This is a self-told lie, one bolstered by your coddling parents and grandparents.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#5. However, I must disagree with you very strongly that providing ordinary and reasonable care in any way constitutes coddling, and I have always found that deprivation and hardship, when necessary, can be better endured by men who have not been subjected to them previously for no cause.

Naomi Novik

#6. The Christlike life has nothing at all to do with satisfying, coddling, or promoting self, but everything to do with being poured out for others.

Claudia Barba

#7. When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love.

Charlotte Knobloch

#8. Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

Ayelet Waldman

#9. In a way, for women, marriage was like an extended babysitting gig. The woman was committing herself to coddling and watching over a grown man for the rest of her life.

Bart Hopkins

#10. Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.

Paulo Freire

#11. People long for God, and more of them than we might think are willing to accept the idea that getting close to him might be painful. The church needs to worry less about coddling our superficial tastes and impulses and more about giving us the whole truth.

Rod Dreher

#12. Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

Lou Holtz

#14. Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one's own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice - even giving up one's life.

Jeffery Deaver

#15. At one point, she probably liked the idea of a daughter. When she was a girl, I bet she daydreamed of being a mother, of coddling, of licking her child like a milk-swelled cat. She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public, was a beloved child.

Gillian Flynn

#16. Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.

Clayton Christensen

#17. As a candidate, Clinton had - as all candidates do - torn into his predecessor for coddling China and promised that he would get tough on China's human rights abuses. As president, Clinton had - as all presidents do - come to see that the reality was a bit more complicated.

Michael Tomasky

#18. O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Jonathan Swift

#19. But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear.

Mark Lawrence

#20. It's like boiling a frog

Stephenie Meyer

#21. I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.

Antonya Nelson

#22. So this is the way we live now: conditioned by the awareness that no North Korean provocation, however egregious, can be confronted, lest it furnish the occasion or pretext for something truly barbarous and insane.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.

Tom Mison

#24. Baseball player: "What time is it?" "You mean now?"

Yogi Berra

#25. Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

Ovid