Top 1200 Raising Children Quotes & Sayings

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

The poor, and especially poor people of color, don't have the luxury of raising 'free-range' children without risking severe consequences. Parents of color don't receive a visit and a warning if their children are found playing alone; they are immediately blamed and far more likely to be arrested or lose custody of their children.

As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

When you parent, it's crucial you realize you aren't raising a "mini me," but a spirit throbbing with its own signature. For this reason, it's important to separate who you are from who each of your children is. Children aren't ours to possess or own in any way. When we know this in the depths of our soul, we tailor our raising of them to their needs, rather than molding them to fit our needs.

Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.

Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

We are raising a generation of children who may not know how to mobilize without Facebook.

It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted as if they were raising a generation of would-be soldiers. I remember some of my friends' parents who would shake their children's hands at bedtime.

Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.

Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

I've raised my children to respect that flag, to stand, to put their hand across their heart and to recognize those sacrifices that have been made and I believe they're raising their children with that same belief.

Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together; they challenge you.

I am very lucky to have a wife who supports me, but the absence from my children was difficult from the moment I took a very difficult decision to have a career which requires so much dedication and focus, just like raising children.

My hobby is raising my children.

It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

In 'The Hate U Give,' I play Big Mav', who was incarcerated for a number of years and is raising three children. He was a gang member but reformed himself, and he's trying to empower his children, help them understand the best way to keep out of trouble.

My wife runs the house. She raised our kids with me only partly there. It's just what coaching is. A lot of times, you're raising other people's children, sometimes at the expense of your own. I hope that wasn't the case with my children, but at times, it probably was.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option. It isn't.

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.

Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

I think it is a great idea for people to look at the reality of raising children at a young age.

Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

Wallace and Gromit's Children's Charity does a fantastic job, raising funds to improve the lives of sick children in hospitals and hospices throughout the U.K.

It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

It is important to communicate to children about what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame the truth or explain our experience in terms they can understand. We need to take time to do this. What has to happen is that more people have to get involved with more children. Focus energy on the child. Children are raising themselves these days in all sorts of strange ways.

We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

Raising children is not easy, and what works for one child may not work for the other.

Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

My mother did a tremendous job of raising four children in Ottawa under a spotlight.

I'm not raising the children, I'm raising the grown ups that they're going to be.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course your children come first; of course you come last; today's children need constant attention, cultivation, and adoration, or they'll become failures and hate you forever; you don't want to fail at that; it's easier for mothers to abandon their work and their dreams than for fathers; you don't want it all anymore (which is good because you can't have it all); who cares about equality, you're too tired; and whoops--here we are in 1954.