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Quotes About Family

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
~ William Cecil
Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
~ Mitch Albom
My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.
~ Joan Rivers
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
~ Ann Voskamp
What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
~ Elizabeth Moon
A good parent gives their child roots and wings.
~ Jonas Salk
They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.
~ Michael Jackson
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.
~ Ana Monnar
Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.
~ Dan Savage
This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.
~ Wes Fesler
Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support
~ Wes Fesler
From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.
~ Wes Fesler
The world's greatest changes are made at home.
~ Wes Fesler
The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.
~ Khalil Gibran
A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.
~ Wes Fesler
Always obey your parents - when they are present.
~ Mark Twain
Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
~ Warren Farrell
I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.
~ Shefali Tsabary
Parenting needs to come to the forefront.
~ Bill Cosby
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
~ Erma Bombeck