Raising A Child Quotes

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.
- Christina Applegate

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.
- Christina Applegate

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.
- Lemony Snicket

A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.
- Bill Cosby

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
- Maria Sharapova

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.
- Diane Keaton

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
- Kevin Kelly

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.
- Bridget Moynahan

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.
- Anna Quindlen