Parents and Parenting Quotes
51 quotations about Parents and Parenting
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Love well, whip well.
Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Authors on Parents and Parenting
Ama Ata Aidoo
American Proverb
Francis Bacon
Henry Ward Beecher
Bible
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Barbara Bush
Miguel De Cervantes
Chinese Proverb
Frank A. Clark
Bill Cosby
Quentin Crisp
Clarence Darrow
Bette Davis
Robert Cecil Day-Lewis
John Dryden
English Proverb
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Malcolm S. Forbes
Benjamin Franklin