Parenting Quotes

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Mr Cobb would acquaint him, that when he was his age, his father thought no more of giving him a parental kick, or a box on the ears, or a cuff on the head, or some little admonition of that sort, than he did of any other ordinary duty of life; and he would further remark, with looks of great significance, that but for this judicious bringing up, he might have never been the man he was at that present speaking; which was probable enough, as he was, beyond all question, the dullest dog of the party.

Charles Dickens

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Samuel G. Goodrich

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

Barbara Bush

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Mark Twain

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Laurence Sterne

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

Jean Paul

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

Francis Bacon

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward Windsor

To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Marilyn French

A Prayer For My SonBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory

General Douglas MacArthur

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

David Frost

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Jodi Picoult

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke