Dennis Miller Quotes

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

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

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.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

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