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. Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
Eric Braeden
#6. There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.
Andy Andrews
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.
Rush Limbaugh
#15. 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
#16. If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.
Thomas Sowell
#17. We're not raising children with the love that we need to.
Bill Cosby
#18. OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
Bil Keane
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.
Candace Cameron
#22. Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.
Ann Romney
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. People have too many theories about raising children. I believe simply in love, security, and discipline.
Shelly Branch
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.
Bernie Mac
#33. There was no quick and easy eradication of evil. There was only the passage of time, of generations, of people raising children who would hold all other lives just as valuable as their own.
Erika Johansen
#34. Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.
Brene Brown
#35. Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
Pepper Schwartz
#36. There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.
Bill Cosby
#37. Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
Daisaku Ikeda
#38. We should not cushion every blow. This is life. Learning to deal with struggle and to develop responsibility is crucial. A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. We can still demonstrate gentle and attached parenting without raising children who melt on a warm day.
Jen Hatmaker
#39. We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.
Mona Simpson
#40. I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.
Dee Dee Myers
#41. One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline ... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
Anne Lamott
#42. I've become increasingly concerned that we're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment and have a strong sense of entitlement, which is very different than agency. Entitlement is "I deserve this just because I want it" and agency is "I know I can do this.
Brene Brown
#43. We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment
Brene Brown
#44. Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.
Philip Zimbardo
#45. Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus
#46. What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.
Jonathan Franzen
#47. I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.
Tyler Perry
#49. I think the issue to bring progressives together should be this most central of all issues - raising children to become responsible, empathetic adults.
George Lakoff
#50. Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you have to earn people's respect by communicating to them that you're going to listen, follow the law and make a fair decision.
Steven Pacey
#51. Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example.
Candace Cameron
#52. How to advise parents for being successful in raising children still
remains an important unsolved problem.
Eraldo Banovac
#53. Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God's eyes.
Eberhard Arnold
#54. The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.
Cheryl Tiegs
#55. Instead of raising children who turn out okay despite their childhood, let's raise children who turn out extraordinary because of their childhood.
L.R. Knost
#56. Art, not unlike raising children ... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.
Michael Kimmelman
#57. More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.
Gloria Steinem
#58. Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
Warren Farrell
#59. Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Anna Quindlen
#60. The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.
Thomas Perez
#61. It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.
Sarah Ruhl
#62. I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.
Francesca Lia Block
#63. What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#64. When we acknowledge our inability to mother our children apart from the Lord's provision and strength, we honor God. Of course we are not able to do this work of raising children and training them in the instruction of the Lord. That's why we desperately need the Lord!
Gloria Furman
#65. I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.
Patricia Polacco
#66. Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn't work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies.
Margaret Aranda
#67. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
Adam Sandler
#68. I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.
Lee Majors
#69. Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
George Will
#70. Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.
Frank Pittman
#71. In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.'
George Foreman
#72. Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
Bruno Bettelheim
#73. I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Nicholas Sparks
#74. Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.
Charles E. McKenzie
#75. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.
Mamie Van Doren
#76. I think a man and a woman, on a whole array of issues, including raising children, have differences, and then you work them through.
Teresa Heinz
#77. I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
Erma Bombeck
#78. Kids are a lesson every day, and being married is a lesson every day, but I think having a boutique and running it with my husband and having our careers and raising children was something that was really an eye-opener all the time.
Lisa Rinna
#79. I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.
Jean Liedloff
#80. I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain. Consider all the people who really struggle and don't have the financial means, don't have the support, and many people are single raising children. That's hard.
Angelina Jolie
#81. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.
Hilary Rosen
#82. Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot
#83. Like piss," she hollered, shaking her head.
"There are some drawbacks," said Zamira, "to raising children among sailors. But then I myself am no doubt making the largest contribution to her vocabulary."
"Piiiisssss," yelled Cosetta, giggling and immensely pleased with herself.
Scott Lynch
#84. Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.
Nicole Ari Parker
#85. It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.
Kerry Healey
#86. There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood.
Girdhar Joshi
#87. It is not a church's job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.
George Barna
#88. We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.
Susan Maushart
#89. Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.
Candace Cameron
#90. Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you'll ever do.
Elizabeth George
#91. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
Jan Blaustone
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Brad Henry
#95. You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.
Elizabeth George
#100. 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
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