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Im torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble – myself included – as fathers get older. – Eric McCormack

Im a parent, especially when youve had the intense parenting the way I had. Its all in the bank. Its all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. Thats the stuff that makes your work rich, thats what you dip into. – Hector Elizondo

For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Blacks tweets. – Michael Showalter

Im hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit. – Lisa Whelchel

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself. – Chinese Proverb

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders. – English Proverb

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief. – Yiddish Proverb

Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion. – Proverb

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. – Joseph Addison

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then hell escape. – W. H. Auden

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. – Francis Bacon

Its frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You cant assume the responsibility for everything you do –or dont do. – Simone de Beauvoir

Let me go to hell, thats all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss. – Samuel Beckett

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. – Henry Ward Beecher

He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21:17 – Bible

To bring up a child in the way he should go — travel that way yourself. – Josh Billings

I dont know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up. – Russell Bishop

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage. – Smiley Blanton

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. – Barbara Bush