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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
— Antonio Porchia
Love is a hole in the heart.
— Ben Hecht
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
— Billie Holiday
Love is always being given where it is not required.
— E. M. Forster
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
— Helen Rowland
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
— Jeanette Winterson
Love is love's reward.
— John Dryden
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
— John Dryden
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
— Lydia M. Child
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
— Miguel de Unamuno
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
— Ovid
Love is a sacred reserve of energy it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. 
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
— Werner Erhard
There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.
— Reese Witherspoon
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
— Francis Beaumont
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
— Bryant H. McGill
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
— D. H. Lawrence
The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
— Max Muller
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
I was adored once too.
— William Shakespeare
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
— Joyce Meyer
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
— H. L. Mencken
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
— Drew Barrymore
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
— Blaise Pascal
Who loves, raves.
— Lord Byron
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
— George Eliot
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
— Aldous Huxley
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
— Brigitte Bardot
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
— Eric Hoffer
Love is the poetry of the senses.
— Honore de Balzac
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun. 
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
— Rita Rudner
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
— Shirley MacLaine
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
— Henri Nouwen
Love is never wrong.
— Melissa Etheridge
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
— Lynda Barry
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
— Will Durant
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
— Mortimer Adler
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
— Francois Rabelais
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
— Ken Kesey
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
— Thornton Wilder
My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
— Nicholas Sparks
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
— Brendan Behan
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
— Jean Anouilh
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
— Madame de Stael
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
— Madame de Stael
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
— John Henry Newman
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
— George Jean Nathan
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
— William Congreve
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
— Helen Hayes
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
— John Ciardi
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
— Pearl Bailey
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
— John Cheever
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
— Eva Gabor
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
— Henry Drummond
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
— Samuel Lover
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
— Aphra Behn
One must not trifle with love.
— Alfred de Musset
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
— Theodore Dreiser
Words may be false and full of art Sighs are the natural language of the heart. 
— Thomas Shadwell
All love is lost but upon God alone.
— William Dunbar
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
— Barbara Pym
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
— Tammy Wynette
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
— Tammy Wynette
Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.
— Kim Casali
If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.
— Kim Casali
My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.
— Gena Lee Nolin
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
— Jane D. Hull
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
— Charles R. Swindoll
The gain is not the having of children it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. 
— Polly Berrien Berends
Don't worry that children never listen to you worry that they are always watching you. 
— Robert Fulghum
Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
— Taylor Hanson
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
— Sigmund Freud
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
— Frank A. Clark
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
— Plato
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
— James E. Faust
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
— Carl Jung
When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
— Rose Kennedy
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
— Virginia Satir
I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.
— Brene Brown
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
— James Dobson
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
— Andrew J. Bernstein
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
— Ogden Nash
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 hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
— Ron Taffel
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
— Jackie Kennedy
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
— Benjamin Spock
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
— Robert Casey
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.
— Ayelet Waldman
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
— Benjamin Spock
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 that's a joy.
— Liam Neeson
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
— Olivia Newton-John
Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.
— Temple Grandin
Childhood is a short season.
— Helen Hayes
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
— Denis Waitley
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
— Miriam Makeba
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
— Mitt Romney
Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
— Mayim Bialik
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
— Bob Filner
I think parenting these days is definitely different from when a lot of people grew up. As much blame as we give a lot of our kids for what they're not doing... I also try to give them as much credit for dealing with things that we didn't have to deal with. Bullying was one on one and face to face. Now it's all over the Internet.
— Nelly
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
— Nadia Boulanger
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
— Anne Sullivan
You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?
— Amy Chua
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
— Red Skelton
Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
— David Frost
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
— Princess Diana
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 environment of a smoker.
— Christy Turlington
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'
— Bernie Mac
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
— Anna Quindlen
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
— Garrison Keillor
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
— George Bernard Shaw
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
— Gilbert Highet
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
— John F. Kennedy
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
— Martin Mull
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
— Evan Bayh
Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
— Alan Thicke
Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby what we get is a total take-over of our lives. 
— Polly Berrien Berends
The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
— Jourdan Dunn
Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
— Carl Honore
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
— Jennifer Aniston
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
— Jillian Michaels
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.
— Amy Chua
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
— Brene Brown
Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
— Ewan McGregor
The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
— Regina Brett
The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
— Angela Duckworth
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
— George Will
You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.
— Stephen Curry
That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.'
— Stephen Colbert
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.
— Sebastian Coe
Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
— Nathaniel Branden
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
— Doug Larson
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
— Milton Sapirstein
If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.
— Suze Orman
Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.
— Gordon Neufeld
Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.
— Ben Shapiro
Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.
— Andrew Solomon
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. 
— Ellen Key
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.
— Lee Strobel
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
— Susie Bright
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
— Luther Burbank
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
— Caitlyn Jenner
The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
— Brene Brown
If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.
— Brene Brown
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
— Mayim Bialik
Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.
— Richard Louv
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
— Kamisese Mara
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
— Todd Tiahrt
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
— Fred G. Gosman
Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
— Jennifer Aniston
Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.
— Juhi Chawla
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
— Virginia Satir
I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.
— Mayim Bialik
If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.
— Helen Fisher
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
— Padma Lakshmi
Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing.
— Paul Walker
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
— Laura Schlessinger
I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
— Tina Turner
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
— Stevie Nicks
That's my ideal day, time with my boys.
— Kenny G
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
— Kelly LeBrock
The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! 
— Louise Hart
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.
— Eliot Spitzer
As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.
— Jim Gaffigan
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
— Dale Archer
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
— Ian Dunbar
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
— Barry Humphries
Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
— Adam Mansbach
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?
— Amy Chua
To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.
— Carl Honore
My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
— Chelsea Clinton
Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.
— Joyce Meyer
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
— Steven Spielberg
Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.
— Nicholas Kristof
I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household tell me there is not yelling and conflict. 
— Amy Chua
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.
— Amy Chua
I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.
— Cindy Crawford
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.
— Emily Oster
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
— Dennis Miller
Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.
— GloZell
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
— Gloria Steinem
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
— Bill Cosby
My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.
— Alanis Morissette
I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!
— Andy Serkis
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.
— Tori Amos
Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian.
— Shakira
From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.
— Monica Johnson
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.
— Brene Brown
Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
— Laura Dern
The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.
— Virginia Postrel
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
— Mary J. Blige
Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.
— Lewis Black
Whatever needed to be done, I need to know how to do it just as well as my wife. You know, for us to be able to really balance the parenting. It was very humbling, and it was also, um - terrifying. Because, you know, giving a baby a bath for the first time is one of the scariest things you can do on this whole earth.
— Jason Isbell
I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.
— Alan Alda
Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
— Hugh Jackman
I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.
— Kourtney Kardashian
I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.
— Kourtney Kardashian
We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
— James E. Faust
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
— Meryl Streep
My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.
— Michele Bachmann
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
— Roseanne Barr
I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.
— Eric McCormack
My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.
— Christie Brinkley
My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality.
— Martin Jacques
In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.
— Martin Jacques
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
— Sloane Crosley
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
— Sloane Crosley
A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.
— John Dickerson
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
— Clive Owen
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
— Clive Owen
There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.
— Nia Vardalos
'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
— Taylor Sheridan
The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.
— Helena Bonham Carter
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
— Jane Fonda
I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
— Robert Winston
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 parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
— Phil McGraw
Having children with someone is the real bond.
— Francesca Annis
My parenting heroes are the Obamas! They've been married for so long, and it looks like they're having fun, and their kids are down to earth, well-adjusted, and smart. They seem to have a strong family unit that I would like to emulate in my life.
— GloZell
Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.
— GloZell
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
— Bill O'Reilly
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
— Gary Oldman
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
— Harrison Ford
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
— Shawn Amos
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
— Miguel de Cervantes
No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
— Fiona Apple
Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.
— Robert Webb
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
— Barbara Bush
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
— Erica Jong
I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
— Eddie Vedder
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 anything that feels good for 36 hours.
— Rita Rudner
What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
— Marlee Matlin
I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.
— Matthew Perry
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
— Jenny Zhang
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.
— Alan Arkin
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
— Jenna Morasca
My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
— Angela Duckworth
Parenting is tough.
— Kate Middleton
Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
— Kate Middleton
I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
— Alison Gopnik
The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be smarter than we are in some ways. 
— Alison Gopnik
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
— Audre Lorde
The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
— Ewan McGregor
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.
— Coretta Scott King
We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
— Adam Mansbach
When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
— Adam Mansbach
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
— Adam Mansbach
I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem.
— Amy Chua
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
— Amy Chua
I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.
— Amy Chua
We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
— Julia Cameron
Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.
— Andrew Solomon
The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
— Hanna Rosin
I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
— W. Bruce Cameron
Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
— W. Bruce Cameron
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
— Brooke Shields
I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.
— Tori Spelling
I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
— Essie Davis
As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
— Essie Davis
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 just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
— Cindy Crawford
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
— John Boehner
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 to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
— Reese Witherspoon
Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
— Bernie Siegel
I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.
— Mayim Bialik
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
— Mayim Bialik
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
— Emma Thompson
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
— Debra Winger
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 disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
— Patricia Heaton
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 to play. 
— Beverly Cleary
My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
— Dawn French
I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.
— Tamsin Greig
Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.
— Wylie Dufresne
I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
— Alexandra Fuller
Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.
— Sundar Pichai
I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
— Emily Oster
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
— Gloria Swanson
I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
— Pat Conroy
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
— Bruce Feiler
I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
— Bruce Feiler
We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
— Edie Falco
The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.
— Jessica Valenti
I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.
— Jessica Valenti
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 planted.
— Walter Scott
Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.
— Kristin Armstrong
I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
— Adam Davidson
I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
— Mika Brzezinski
My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.
— Kym Whitley
Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached. 
— Carl Honore
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
— Carl Honore
In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
— Laura Moser
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
— Robert Orben
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
— Robert Orben
I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
— Joan Cusack
The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.
— Alan Thicke
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
— Bob Barr
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.
— Susan Cain
I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.
— Ryan Phillippe