Top 1200 Raising Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.

We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in their life who's a good male influence and support. There's no cookie-cutter way of raising children and no family is the same, but the most important thing is that children are loved, supported and cared for, whether it's coming from a relative or a friend or a grandfather or a good school teacher. Anyone. Children just need good examples and mentoring to teach them and show them how to do things.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

I'm constantly trying to educate myself with new material on raising children as opposed to the rule book from 20 years ago.

Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

Biological fathers are of slight importance to the raising of children, after all, and the larger the welfare state, the more employment for crucial members of the Democratic base.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their children's needs and their own values.... We must address ourselves less to the criticism and reform of parents themselves than to the criticism and reform of the institutions that sap their self-esteem and power.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

This divine privilege of raising our children is a much greater responsibility than we can do alone, without the Lord's help. He knows exactly what our children need to know, what they need to do, and what they need to be to come back into His presence. He gives mothers and fathers specific instruction and guidance through the scriptures, His prophets, and the Holy Ghost.

Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example.

Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.

I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.

Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side.

I think a man and a woman, on a whole array of issues, including raising children, have differences, and then you work them through.

My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

I'm raising three children. I'm teaching my kids what it means, the Golden Rule, to treat people like you want to be treated.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

There's such a grace and understanding in the female persona when women have really come into their own. Part of that is to have children, and to be caring for those children, and not only in the care for them, but also in the nurturing and raising of them, they have to pass on their souls and their intelligence. And all those things can't be taught. It's something that, that in the essence of a woman, the essence of a mother, a mother knows!

I think there's been a big psychological shift in people my age raising children. The world that they are growing into requires a different style of parenting.

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

I don't pretend to have all the answers on raising children (and outside of taking care of my own that I was in labor with for 16 hours), I say do what works for you and your child.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Men want to play a bigger and equal role in raising their children, but as a society we don't support them in that.

I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children. The problem is not so much to reeducate parents but to make available the help they need and to give them enough power so that they can be effective advocates with and coordinators of the other forces that are bringing up their children.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

To mothers who are raising their children without a father in the home, I promise you that as you speak of Jesus Christ, you will feel the power of heaven blessing you.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

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.

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

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.

I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.

Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.