#children

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. ↗

— Patti Smith

#changed #children #citizen #cleaned #diapers

You want to spend time with your children even though you are tired so you do all those things. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#even #spend #things #those #though

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

#children #clear #enumerate #equal #even

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it. ↗

— Walter Rauschenbusch

#doctrine #every #generation #high #put

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#children #creating #dreams #environment #i

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#children #established #had #nothing #parents

I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair. ↗

— Melanie Roach

#anything #anything is possible #children #decision #family

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#back #before #children #determined #done

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#children #decision #discipline #equal #give

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #hope #i #myself