Raising A Family Quotes:

Being at home is a job in itself and raising a family for sure.

- Laura Carmichael

source: Source: uproxx.com

topic: Jobs, Home, Raising A Family

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

- C. Everett Koop

topic: Responsibility, Parenting, Generations, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Inspirational, Life, Relationship, Inspirational Parenting, Lack Of Integrity

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

- Dorothy Nolte

topic: Children, Acceptance, Parenting, Love My Parents, Parent Child

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational, Growing Up, Women, Good Character, Many Paths

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

- Frederick Douglass

source: "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Happy Children, Inspirational Children

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

- Franklin P. Adams

topic: Children, Parenting, Instance, Having Kids, Inspirational Parenting

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Children, Parenting, Important, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

- Bill Ayers

source: "An Unconditional Embrace". Interview with Gabriel Lyon, www.tolerance.org. Spring 1998.

topic: Kids, Parenting, Trying, Inspirational Parenting, Being A Parent

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Birthday, Family, Christmas, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Funny, Family, Mom, Perfect Parents, Raising Kids

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

- Bill Richardson

topic: Single Mom, Struggle, Opportunity, Single Parent, Single Mother

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

- Dorothy Nolte

topic: Children, Approval, Early Childhood, Parent Child, Child Development

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Family, Children, Growing Up, Raising Kids, Where You Grew Up

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

- Charlie Gonzalez

topic: Senior, Citizens, Way, Raising A Family, Senior Citizen

The whole process of raising a family is one of perfecting our own lives. That which we transmit consciously and unconsciously to our children in their rearing in the home and in the community must be the best within us.

- Henry D. Moyle

topic: Children, Home, Community, Raising A Family

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

- Thaksin Shinawatra

topic: Country, Tree, Rubber, Tree Of Life, Earning A Living

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

- Tim Dorsey

source: "Gator A-Go-Go: A Novel". Book by Tim Dorsey, March 9, 2010.

topic: Growing Up, Kids, Gas Stations, Raising A Family

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

- Bob Riley

topic: Change, Running, Ideas, Different Ideas, Great Unknown

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.

- Carl Paladino

source: "Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Stir National Fury". "Tell Me More" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. October 12, 2010.

topic: Children, Successful, Thinking, Brainwashed, Raising A Family

Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.

- Donald Trump

topic: Success, Golf, Piano, Raising A Family

Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Fashion, Successful, Thinking, Raising A Family

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

- Jerry Brown

topic: Technology, Opportunity, Destiny, Automation, Boon

I love what I'm doing here but I hate being away from home. I hate it. I look forward to one day raising a family myself, and I really look forward to children but when that day comes, I don't want to be an absent dad. I'm already an absent husband.

- Chuck Ragan

source: Source: theindiespiritualist.com

topic: Dad, Children, Husband, Raising A Family

If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.

- Freeman Dyson

source: "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. January 3, 2018.

topic: Years, Age, Finishing, Worst Times, Raising A Family

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

- Robin Yount

topic: Athlete, Lifestyle, Difficult, Raising A Family, Professional Athlete