Parents and Parenting Quotes
51 quotations about Parents and Parenting
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Don't set your wit against a child.
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.
The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.
Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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