Top 100 Quotes About Raising Children
#1. As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.
LZ Granderson
#2. Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.
Candace Cameron
#3. Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.
Chris Christie
#4. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
John Wilmot
#5. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
Jan Blaustone
#6. The twins turned out well, not because of anything that Craig or his wife did but because of the kind of people they are. Good, decent people who always put the needs of their children ahead of their own. It was never more complicated than love, one generation raising a better version of the next.
Jung Yun
#7. For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
Carol Bellamy
#8. It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Brad Henry
#9. You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#10. I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.
Paula Hawkins
#11. While everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#12. If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'
Parvesh Cheena
#13. Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
Eric Braeden
#14. There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.
Andy Andrews
#15. Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.
Elizabeth George
#16. Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child's life.
Ron Baratono
#17. I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.
Joanne Simpson
#18. You want to know the secret to raising good kids?"
"What's that? asked Thomas.
"High expectations."
Thomas laughed. "Alright, well what's the secret to a happy marriage?"
Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. " ... Low expectations.
Chris Nicolaisen
#19. There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman
#20. Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#21. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.
Tami Hoag
#23. Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.
Ron Funches
#24. Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
E.W. Howe
#26. God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.
Dikembe Mutombo
#27. There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.
Jeffrey Kluger
#28. We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.
Brene Brown
#29. There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.
Anitra Lynn McLeod
#30. Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.
Erma Bombeck
#31. In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
Robert Jordan
#32. My parents told me they knew they made lots of mistakes raising us, but that they did their best. Most parents will say something like that at some point, and they are usually right. But I think children also do their best while being raised. Finding family "happiness" is a fine balancing act.
Torill Kove
#33. I have several friends that have outlasted both of my marriages that are raising wonderful children together that have been together in gay unions for over 25 years. So they're doing a better job than I am!
Vanessa L. Williams
#34. Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#35. My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
Usher
#37. All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.
William J. Clinton
#38. I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#39. They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.
Marge Simon
#40. Only bad things happen quickly, ... Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.
Gordon Livingston
#41. Tell me my little children, what crime has this lizard committed that it must die this evening?" There was silence. In raising my head like a joke, I tried to laugh. That was the same time I realized that grandma was dead serious with us.Pg.26
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#42. But if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure of proving their masculinity by material means.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#43. Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!
Tanya Masse
#44. It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
Andrea Yates
#45. Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.
Michael R. French
#46. By raising a child we should also help raise our children's generation, not just raise him or her alone.
Chart Korbjitti
#47. Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.
Rush Limbaugh
#48. Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.
Judy Woodruff
#49. you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." ~ Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Mercedes King
#50. If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
Thomas Sowell
#51. I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child
Angelina Jolie
#52. She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#53. I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
Travis Barker
#54. We're not raising children with the love that we need to.
Bill Cosby
#55. OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
Bil Keane
#56. First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
Angelina Jolie
#57. understanding. As one successful parent said about raising children, "Treat them all the same by treating them differently." Attending to the Little Things
Stephen R. Covey
#58. Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby
#59. Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.
Candace Cameron
#60. Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.
Ann Romney
#61. I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
Arthur Ashe
#62. I know he's a good baby ... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.
Sarah Addison Allen
#63. Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won't embarrass us. We're working toward something much more important than that. We're actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
#64. Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#65. But, Dad ... " She hesitated. "It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that."
Sol managed a smile. "No parent would refuse that, Rachel.
Dan Simmons
#66. I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.
Benjamin Bratt
#67. Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.
Patricia Heaton
#68. In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
Bill Cosby
#69. Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don't have the fucking part in writing a book.
M.F. Moonzajer
#70. We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater level, at a deeper level, if it was going to be a meaningful example to them.
David Gregory
#71. Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people.
C. JoyBell C.
#72. The Five Keys
1.Always be involved in her life 2.Respect and honor her mom.
3.Treasure every moment with her.
4.Pray for her every day.
5.Be her hero.
Harry H. Harrison Jr.
#73. What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#74. He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. "It's good to want a child to do well, but it's bad to want that glory to reflect back on you," is what he says.
David Lipsky
#75. Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
Chaka Fattah
#76. It is such a privilege to learn from children as they discover new worlds of possibility and give themselves fully over to their dreams, inspiring a few adults along the way.
Colleen Mariotti
#78. The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.
Marlene Targ Brill
#79. I may not be a role model, but at least I'm raising really smart children.
Colleen Hoover
#80. People have too many theories about raising children. I believe simply in love, security, and discipline.
Shelly Branch
#81. Investing the time in climbing, descending, or traversing toward a new perspective is always worthwhile.
Colleen Mariotti
#82. Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage.
Jim George
#83. Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
Margaret Thatcher
#84. All my contemporaries
hundred-and-fivers or convicts
will tell you how we lived
in barely sentient fear, raising
children for the executioner,
prison, or the torture chamber.
Anna Akhmatova
#85. The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives.
Susan Richards Shreve
#86. I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
Stevie Nicks
#87. When we prioritize and focus and that becomes the anchor the relationship becomes the anchor and it trumphs everything else than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child.
Shefali Tsabary
#88. Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.
Michael Crichton
#89. I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.
Brian Michael Bendis
#90. No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
Lauren Hutton
#91. Never forget the tribulations that we have endured. We are all one energy, and we are all part of God. You are one family now. Do not allow yourselves to find reasons to separate yourselves. Share everything; help each other in raising your children. Love each other, and love life.
Aaron B. Powell
#92. I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.
Robin Yount
#93. Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.
Meir Soloveichik
#94. Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.
Anna Quindlen
#95. When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness
an incompleteness
in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.
Willard Gaylin
#96. It's no coincidence that I began writing the day my daughter started school. I knew everything I knew before I began to write, but I was raising two children and didn't have the time to get to the typewriter.
Susan Isaacs
#97. We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.
Joseph J. Romm
#98. When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.
Bernie Mac
#99. Our children were allowed to help when they were little, urged to help when they grew a little older, and sometimes ordered to help when they were teenagers.
Boyd K. Packer
#100. Raising Black children - female and male - in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.
Audre Lorde
