Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Meltzer

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

Juvenal

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Debra Winger

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

Aristotle

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Aristotle

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Eddie Vedder

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Eliot Spitzer

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

Kourtney Kardashian

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

But for parenting teens you need a whole new set of tools.

Barbara Bush

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Anne Lamott

Expectations are resentments under construction.

Amanda Peet

~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

Alvin Toffler

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Chuck Palahniuk

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

If women want to work and are more satisfied, the quality of their parenting is going to be better.

Andy Serkis

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

Orson Scott Card

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Betty Smith

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

Carl Jung

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

Joan Rivers

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

Joan Rivers

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

Khalil Gibran

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

Khalil Gibran

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Joan Jett

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

Quick meals, how to be supportive to our spouses, positive parenting styles and education.

Iyanla Vanzant

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

Iyanla Vanzant

When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

Iyanla Vanzant

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Mann There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who DRAIN energy.

I set up the site because, at the time, there weren't many parenting resources online,

Ewan McGregor

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.