Raise A Child Quotes

#1. It took a village to raise a child, and it took a rainbow of colors to make them feel at home and comfortable.

T.A. Webb

#2. It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.

Michael Franti

#3. Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that ... it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they're wrong.

Thomas Sowell

#4. I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

Edie Falco

#5. If you raise a child to love, respect and believe in themselves . They will never accept anything less from someone else.

J.S. Edwards

#6. It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough.

Elena Delle Donne

#7. I think it's entirely possible to have a career in fashion and raise a child. Stella McCartney is on her fourth child and remains both a fashion icon and a great mom.

Rodger Berman

#8. I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

Ana Ortiz

#9. If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

Geoffrey Canada

#10. Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

Jen Kirkman

#11. I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.

Dorianne Laux

#12. I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

Christina Applegate

#13. It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and it takes a community to raise a genius, no matter how singular the individual.

Orna Ross

#14. It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

Jessye Norman

#15. You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

Aimee Bender

#16. The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

Shulamith Firestone

#17. I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

Toni Morrison

#18. It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man.

Susan May Warren

#19. The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.

Jen Kirkman

#20. When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

Fulton J. Sheen

#21. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That's what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.

Regina Brett

#22. You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Toni Morrison

#23. I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

Corey Feldman

#24. How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.

Rafael Cruz

#25. What I've realized is that life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children - all of our children - a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Barack Obama

#26. If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

Doug Stanhope

#27. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.

David Guerrero

#28. I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?

Ellen Barkin

#29. Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Lynn Johnston

#30. You're training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

Sherri Shepherd

#32. It takes a female to have a baby,
It takes a woman to raise a child,
It takes a mother to raise them correctly,
It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. It takes a village to raise a child
but it takes strong families to make a village.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. Any man can help make a child, but it takes a special man to help raise a child. He must be selfless. He must be responsible. He must be reliable. He must be a role model. Happy Father's Day to the men who are being real fathers.

Tony Gaskins

#35. It takes a village to raise a child.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#36. If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

Elliott Abrams

#37. I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

Chelsea Handler

#38. You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

Cassandra Clare

#39. Be advised, your objective is to raise a child from birth to adulthood so that she is a productive member of society. Minimum casualties.

Tonya Burrows

#40. When you raise a child on fear and hatred from the moment they are old enough to listen, it leaves a mark.

C.S. Arnot

#41. Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young ... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.

Helen Fisher

#42. It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

Meghan Daum

#43. People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She's only doing good if your daughter's doing good. We're all one family.

Kanye West

#44. I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

Clay Aiken

#45. To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren't so damned important.

Jonathan V. Last

#46. That's a parents' job, isn't it? To raise a child strong enough to leave and break our hearts?

Beth Groundwater

#47. We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

Panayiotis Zavos

#48. A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#49. If you want to be a good parent please heal your own wounds, heal all of them and be confident that you've done so before you seriously consider having children. The unresolved child within you is the real child you need to embrace and heal and raise.

Daniel Mackler

#50. Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

Annie Lennox

#51. Encouragement is about drawing forth a child's potential. As we raise and educate our kids on how to be good people, how to work hard, and how to do the right thing, we must find ways to draw it out of them, as opposed to "filling them up" with our words and values.

Kelly Bartlett

#52. When you raise a god instead of a child, you're bound to be serving him for the rest of your days. Same thing holds when you marry a god.

Gloria Naylor

#53. First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

Amit Kalantri

#54. To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Matthew McConaughey

#55. It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

Neil Gaiman

#56. Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

Ken Burns

#57. I believe in less government interference in people's personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.

Ann McLane Kuster

#58. By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go ... .Miss Leefolt, she'd narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong, unhitch that crying baby off my foot. I reckon that's the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns

Kathryn Stockett

#59. Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever.

Tadahiko Nagao

#60. A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Clyde Edgerton

#61. Each child is a unique person, so raise your child taking this fact into
consideration.

Eraldo Banovac

#62. Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

Joyce Maynard

#63. Trouble comes looking for you. Lots of times I just stay in the house and enjoy my family. I try to be a father to my child, I'll stay out of trouble if I can, because I have lots to do. Other folks have different hardships. It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

Snoop Dogg

#64. It is not how much money or luxury you avail a child that counts, but how well you nurture and raise the child to become useful, and more productive individual in the society that matters

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#65. Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.

Lysa TerKeurst

#66. Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

Buck Brannaman

#67. What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.

Barack Obama

#68. Parents have the obligation to instruct their children. "Raise up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6).

Ginny Seuffert

#69. A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.

Simon Soloveychik

#70. Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

Lou Engle

#71. An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

Joni Mitchell

#72. 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

#73. She's fertile, docile . . . she'd give you a child every nine months! I'll teach her how to raise the children, and that way they'll all be the way I want them to be! Isn't that wonderful?

Joel Dicker

#74. But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.

Janet Reno

#75. Our souls are transitory; one single life is fleeting. Based on some children's accounts, not all souls are immediately reincarnated. Sometimes the consciousness can choose rebirth. What a lovely thought to look upon your child and realize that he entrusted you to raise him. What a gift.

Shelbi Wescott

#76. We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

Ray Lewis

#77. India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

Karisma Kapoor

#78. By raising a child we should also help raise our children's generation, not just raise him or her alone.

Chart Korbjitti

#79. Discipline is helping a child solve a Problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solution not retribution.

L.R. Knost

#80. When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Sadie Jones

#81. Teach a child not to seek help but to seek the opportunity to help others.

Debasish Mridha

#82. I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.

Jeremy Sisto

#83. Perhaps you're a parent and you bought this book to learn how to raise an achievement-oriented, drug-free adult virgin ... The essential ingredients, I can tell you up front, are a strong father figure, bad skin, and a child-sized colonial-lady outfit.

Tina Fey

#84. It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.

Chris Witty

#85. 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.

#86. What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

Barack Obama

#87. My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Frank Zappa

#88. You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

L. Ron Hubbard

#89. The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

Johnny Depp

#90. Teach a child to love his world deeply so that he may find the beauty and joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#91. The calf scramble will be during both rodeo performances and consist of children attempting to catch and halter several loose calves. If a child succeeds, he or she will receive a certificate to purchase a breeding animal to raise and bring back to the livestock show next year.

Kim Carnes

#92. You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

Ann Cotton

#93. We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

Barack Obama

#94. At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.

Henry Ford