Marianne Williamson Quotes

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

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

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.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.