Parenting Quotes

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

W. H. Auden

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years

Erma Bombeck

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Benjamin Spock

To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.

Josh Billings

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time, because it's too hard...To put it loosely, the reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up...

John Lennon

Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.

Proverb

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Yiddish Proverb

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Voltaire

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

Christy Turlington

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Leo Tolstoy

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Bill Cosby

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Jane D. Hull

How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.

Robert Cecil DayLewis

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Robin G. Collingwood

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Russell Baker

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Arnold H. Glasow

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Bill Cosby

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato