Plato Quotes

If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

I've got two little girls, I've gotta do my best by them.

Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

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.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

We loved our dad. My mom loved her husband. But at the end of the day, I think, he did what he was supposed to do in this world. He had five kids and raised us right. That's the most important thing.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

I'm all about living however you want, but if you make the decision to get married and have children, then you have an obligation to raise them in an environment that isn't going to ruin them, warp their perception of the world, or close doors for them.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

You live with someone, you make a commitment to honor them, respect them, and love them, and if you're going to have children, then you make a commitment to raise those children together. Why does the state have to get involved with that?

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

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

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.