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Quotes About Parenting

Isn't it interesting how men 'leave' their families, but women 'abandon' their children?
~ Susan Powter
Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.
~ Unknown
The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
~ E. W. Howe
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.
~ Gloria Steinem
You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.
~ Ally Walker
Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
~ Augustus Napier
Saw a man in Whole Foods yelling at his son, What are you doing?! You know I don't eat bread!! Is there such a thing as health food abuse?
~ Bob Saget
The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.
~ Charles Darwin
Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.
~ Cinco Paul
Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
~ Don Marquis
A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.
~ Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.
~ Edward Lear
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
~ Euripides
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
~ Euripides
Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.
~ Frances Parkinson Keyes
What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?
~ Frank Zappa
A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.
~ George MacDonald
If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.
~ Gloria Steinem
I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.
~ Greg Bryk
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
~ Matt Damon
I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.
~ Matthew Specktor
The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
~ Patrick Dempsey
The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.
~ Philip Wylie