Parenting Quotes

Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

Liam Neeson

Everything depends on upbringing.

Leo Tolstoy

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Denis Waitley

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Rodney Dangerfield

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father

Charles Dickens

Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

Bill Cosby

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Marjorie Holmes

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Todd Tiahrt

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

Mayim Bialik

Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Jeremy P. Johnson

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

Jodi Picoult

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Mary J. Blige

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Barbara Bush

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Jodi Picoult

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Benjamin Spock

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

Sloane Crosley

Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

Elizabeth Jennings

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

Ryan Phillippe