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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. -- Ed Asner
Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't. -- Malcolm Forbes
Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree. -- Maya Angelou
I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa -- Sammy Hagar
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons
Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees. -- Tom Trebelhorn
Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little. -- Madonna Ciccone
The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority. -- Gene Brown
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids. -- Bill Crawford
Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks. -- Jim Gaffigan
We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids. -- Alain de Botton
One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school. -- Patty Duke
Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can. -- Kelli Williams
I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids. -- Bruce Willis
Some men dont want to be responsible fathers. Its easier to say Lets just turn the kids over to the state. Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting. -- Tim Huelskamp
When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, 'We relate to you. I've been divorced. I'm raising kids on my own.' Or, 'You've had money. You've lost money.' -- Marie Osmond
This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary. -- Patricia Heaton
Alzheimer's is a family disease...It requires countless hours of care, which are typically provided by family caregivers...Wi thout professional help, it can be impossible to juggle providing that care with jobs, raising kids or just time for yourself. -- Seth Rogen
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids. -- Marge Piercy
I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come. -- Steve Carell
My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I raised four kids in six years. -- Cindy Sheehan
I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God. -- Denis Leary
My kids get everything they want and are raised well. -- Suge Knight
Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids. -- Estelle
I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian. -- Steven Seagal
I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa. -- Sammy Hagar
They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right. -- Joseph Jackson
I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. -- Caroline Kennedy
I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help. -- Jane Leeves
You can't raise kids alone, you can't heal alone... you really need a community. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
Oh, when I was a kid, I was raised up with all the Disney classics. -- Pierre Coffin
Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids. -- Eric Braeden
Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world. -- Victoria Moran
I have met parents all over the world, and they all just want to raise their kids to a higher standard than they were raised with. -- Michael Mullen
Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living. -- Kid Rock
The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them. -- Reba McEntire
I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids. -- Kid Rock
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -- Ed Asner
If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much. -- Steve Martin
The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week. -- Spencer Haywood
I'm not raising my kids to survive the world. I'm raising them to change it. -- Steven Furtick
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives. -- Penelope Leach
I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me. -- Tracy Pollan
I can't imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life. -- Josie Bissett
This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face. -- Marilyn Manson
I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York. -- Kim Raver
My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing. -- Jean Craighead George
...make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God. -- Randall Terry
beyond kitchen,bedroom,or raising kids-the name of a woman today is the process of balancing of outer and inner society. -- lity munshi
The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind. -- Joe Perry
The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them. -- Oprah Winfrey
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed. -- William Damon
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
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
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone. -- Gioconda Belli
My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time. -- Kim Raver
We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women. -- John Krasinski
Don't get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother's responsibility. It's a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope. -- Stephen Colbert
A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all. -- Julianna Margulies
I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap. -- Tracy Morgan
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it. -- Amy Chua
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
Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids. -- David Rolf
Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money. -- Jesse L. Martin

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