Parenting Quotes

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

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.

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

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.

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.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

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.

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.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

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.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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.

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.