Raising Children Quotes

Raising Children Quote of the day

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.

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, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

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

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

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.

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

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

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.

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.

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

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

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!

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

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

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

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

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.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

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.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

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

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

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

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

The secret to raising children is to love them... And teach them to operate in a way you can tolerate them the best.

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

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

Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

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

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.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

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

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

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

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

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

If you are a worrywart you can't be a ninja. You can't rise up and fight when the weight of the world is pressing you down. Your family needs you to be sane and not bogged down in fear.