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With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised. -- Adam Sandler
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. -- Democritus
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period. -- Eric Braeden
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.' -- Erma Bombeck
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. -- Tyler Perry
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. -- Bill Cosby
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. -- Nicholas Sparks
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? -- Anna Quindlen
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy. -- Dee Dee Myers
Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution. -- Rush Limbaugh
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. -- Dee Dee Myers
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The secret to raising children is to love them... And teach them to operate in a way you can tolerate them the best. -- Bob Saget
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. -- Thomas S. Monson
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! -- Lauren Hutton
She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole. -- Tami Hoag
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. -- Jean Liedloff
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved. -- Michael Crichton
Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad. -- Ron Funches
I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain. Consider all the people who really struggle and don't have the financial means, don't have the support, and many people are single raising children. That's hard. -- Angelina Jolie
It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast. -- Joyce Maynard
We're not raising children with the love that we need to. -- Bill Cosby
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. -- Bruno Bettelheim
As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. -- Hilary Rosen
Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous. -- Brene Brown
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people. -- George Will
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. -- Thomas Perez
God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation. -- Dikembe Mutombo
I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important. -- Patricia Polacco
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. -- LZ Granderson
There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them. -- Nicole Ari Parker
In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.' -- George Foreman
Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future. -- Virginia Postrel
Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son. -- Chris Christie
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. -- Gloria Steinem
They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think. -- Marge Simon
Raising children has made me more patient and selfless. -- Candace Cameron
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children. -- Usher
When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
I believed in raising my children as I had been raised. -- Boris Becker
Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges. -- Ryoko Tani
I'm not raising the children-I'm raising the grown-ups that they're going to be. -- Louis C. K.
What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive. -- Jonathan Franzen
In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul. -- Lisa T. Shepherd
Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time. -- Charles E. McKenzie
Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it. -- Candace Cameron
How to advise parents for being successful in raising children stillremains an important unsolved problem. -- Eraldo Banovac
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children. -- Bil Keane
If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children. -- Thomas Sowell
Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth. -- Ann Romney
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. -- Jackie Kennedy
My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children. -- Michele Bachmann
I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere. -- Kent McCord
I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them. -- Brian Michael Bendis
There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out. -- Andy Andrews
We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children. -- Joseph J. Romm
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. -- Brad Henry
When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em. -- Bernie Mac
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything. -- Uma Thurman
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. -- John Wilmot
All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work. -- William J. Clinton
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control). -- Warren Farrell
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. -- Barbara Delinsky
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children. -- Wendy E. Long
Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn. -- Tom Cruise
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness. -- Richard Paul Evans
Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens. -- Frank Pittman
I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children. -- Lee Majors
Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state. -- Margaret Thatcher
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children. -- Lars von Trier
We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point. -- Susan Maushart
The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them. -- Oprah Winfrey
I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids. -- Travis Barker
Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children. -- Benjamin Spock
Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage. -- Jim George
My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future. -- Withered Hand
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
I think a man and a woman, on a whole array of issues, including raising children, have differences, and then you work them through. -- Teresa Heinz
Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion. -- Judy Woodruff
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. -- Juan Pablo Galavis
Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you. -- Michael Kimmelman
I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that. -- Liberty Ross
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. -- Candace Cameron
Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life. -- Meir Soloveichik
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. -- E. W. Howe
If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive. -- Benjamin Lotter
Having children and raising them will bring new purpose and new life to Heaven. It will not be the end of everything, but the beginning! -- David Berg
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. -- Brene Brown
Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them. -- Carine Roitfeld
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. -- Arthur Ashe
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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. -- Patricia Heaton
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. -- Marni Jackson
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break. -- Anne Lamott
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. -- Patti Smith
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. -- Robin Yount
My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing. -- Andie MacDowell
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. -- Francesca Lia Block
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. -- Candace Cameron
Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation. -- Edward Abbey
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. -- Gloria Steinem
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. -- George Barna
It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party. -- Kerry Healey
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. -- Bill Cosby

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