“ Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. Democritus
“ A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one. T. Berry Brazelton
“ First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that. Angelina Jolie
“ Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession.… Susan Orlean
“ Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth. Beverly Cleary
“ 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 th… Benjamin Spock
“ Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment… Peggy O'Mara
“ Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot
“ Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence… Dan Savage
“ I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. Barbara Bush
“ It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. Pope John XXIII
“ Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'I said, 'Are you a monster? Like Ursula Monkton?'Lettie th… Neil Gaiman
“ 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 m… Martin Jacques
“ The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential. Unarine Ramaru
“ The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. Noah Webster
“ In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday… J. C. Watts
“ A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. Marian Wright Edelman
