Fran Lebowitz Quotes

If you know that you've given the right upbringing and knowledge to your children, you have already won half the battle.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

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.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

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

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.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

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

My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.

We all want to raise our children well.

As a father, you want to protect, but I also want to prepare her for when she grows up, so I want to be a great example as a dad.

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

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.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

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

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

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.

Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as a gift from the Almighty; that she has no greater mission than to rear them in light and truth, in understanding and love.