All Quotes

Parental child abduction is child abuse.
‐‐ Chris Smith

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

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
‐‐ Clive Owen

Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let's face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool.
‐‐ Jen Kirkman

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.
‐‐ Jason Katims

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.
‐‐ Amity Gaige

'Parenthood' is a story about people's lives - the title helps. Very early on during the show's launch, the title was something familiar for the audience. It grabbed people's interest.
‐‐ Jason Katims

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
‐‐ Robin G. Collingwood

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
‐‐ Angela Kinsey

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
‐‐ Alvin Toffler

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.
‐‐ Melissa Rivers

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
‐‐ Dale Archer

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

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.
‐‐ Tori Amos

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

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

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

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.
‐‐ Lewis Black

Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.
‐‐ Juhi Chawla

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.
‐‐ Carrie Coon

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
‐‐ Mel Carnahan

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
‐‐ Fred Rogers

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
‐‐ Marcelene Cox

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
‐‐ Theodore Dalrymple

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
‐‐ Anthony Powell

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
‐‐ Francis Chan

Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
‐‐ Osman Rashid

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas.
‐‐ Arvind Gupta

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.
‐‐ Gordon Neufeld

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
‐‐ Rich Lowry

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
‐‐ Bob Keeshan

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
‐‐ John Hurt

Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
‐‐ Gallagher

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller