Nora Ephron Quotes

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.

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.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

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.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

I'm not cut out to lug babies around!

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.

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.

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

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

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

We're not raising grass. We're raising boys.

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.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

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 hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

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

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.