| Quote 433 | A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. |
| Quote 910 | Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. |
| Quote 3620 | Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. |
| Quote 5675 | My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. |
| Quote 7546 | Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. |
| Quote 7744 | Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. |
| Quote 7760 | It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad. |
| Quote 7863 | Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. |
| Quote 7938 | To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt. |
| Quote 8141 | It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimin... |
| Quote 8161 | It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is ... |
| Quote 8184 | My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full... |
| Quote 8209 | Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. |
| Quote 8323 | Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. |
| Quote 8324 | It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disa... |
| Quote 8361 | We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free. |
| Quote 8446 | I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anyt... |
| Quote 8589 | We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. |
| Quote 8648 | Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
- Charles R. Swindoll |
| Quote 8653 | Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the e... |
| Quote 8685 | We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. |
| Quote 8734 | Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers w... |
| Quote 8790 | No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. |
| Quote 8904 | I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job. |
| Quote 8942 | The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. |
| Quote 8956 | If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from st... |
| Quote 8961 | Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. |
| Quote 8973 | I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. |
| Quote 9017 | Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. |
| Quote 9069 | I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. |
| Quote 9266 | What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp. |
| Quote 9277 | I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. |
| Quote 9317 | We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated wh... |
| Quote 9324 | That's my ideal day, time with my boys.
- Kenny G |
| Quote 9326 | I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what ... |
| Quote 9350 | Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized ... |
| Quote 9365 | The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. |
| Quote 9550 | I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could... |
| Quote 9761 | Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings. |
| Quote 9886 | How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has p... |
| Quote 9891 | Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great re... |
| Quote 10027 | I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. |
| Quote 10225 | The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. |
| Quote 10233 | Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can d... |
| Quote 10273 | My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life. |
| Quote 10340 | Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out. |
| Quote 10536 | The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. |
| Quote 10860 | I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go ... |
| Quote 10946 | I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies. |
| Quote 11135 | Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility... |
| Quote 11144 | Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. |
| Quote 11298 | Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. |
| Quote 11326 | Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But... |
| Quote 11518 | We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children... |
| Quote 11638 | Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from... |
| Quote 11656 | I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence... |
| Quote 11693 | My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed p... |
| Quote 11731 | Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about han... |
| Quote 11854 | My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. |
| Quote 11928 | Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies. |
| Quote 12007 | If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. |
| Quote 12108 | Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. |
| Quote 12235 | Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. |
| Quote 12338 | The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the p... |
| Quote 12381 | Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. |
| Quote 12383 | The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun... |
| Quote 12550 | You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship. |
| Quote 12563 | Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. |
| Quote 12718 | Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. |
| Quote 12825 | There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. |
| Quote 13262 | Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. |
| Quote 13359 | I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places... |
| Quote 13561 | There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. |
| Quote 13648 | A mother who is really a mother is never free. |
| Quote 13760 | To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's ... |
| Quote 13780 | What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. |
| Quote 13823 | There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to... |
| Quote 13852 | Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. |