Parenting Quotes
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First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet. (Quote by - Prochnow)
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. (Quote by - William D. Tammeus)
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. (Quote by - C. Everet Koop)
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. (Quote by - Ed Asner)
The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately (Quote by - they talk to the heart. (Quote by - Hain Ginott)
If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying. (Quote by - Kevin Heath)
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive? (Quote by - Roseanne Barr)
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways. (Quote by - Dennis Miller)
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. (Quote by - David Bly)
The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child, but the parent. (Quote by - Frank Pittman)
A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be. (Quote by - Lion)
My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ! (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and the rest of the time when they will turn in. (Quote by - Eleanor Graham Vance)
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. (Quote by - Harold Hulbert)
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" (Quote by - Milton Berle)
I was cesarean born. You can't really tell, although whenever I leave a house, I go out through a window (Quote by - Steven Wright)
Children Learn What They Live. (Quote by - Dorothy Law Neite)
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. (Quote by - Clarence Budinton Kelland)
Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of. (Quote by - Bruce Lansky)
Parenthood: The state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. (Quote by - Marcelene Cox)
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. (Quote by - Arab Proverb)
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind. (Quote by - Queen Rania of Jordan)
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house. (Quote by - Paul Lewis)
If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma. (Quote by - Theresa Bloomingdale)
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. (Quote by - Buddy Hackett)
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. (Quote by - Barbara Shapiro)
To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. (Quote by - Anonymous)
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. (Quote by - Martin Mull)
Taking time and sharing is the essence of teaching. The future of those we cherish, will be a reflection of what we model today. (Quote by - Author Unknown)
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. (Quote by - Edgar W. Howe)
Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
Your children need your presence more than your presents. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
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. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. (Quote by - Leo Burke)
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. (Quote by - Mario Cuomo)
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
There must always be a struggle between a father and son when one aims at power and the other at independence. (Quote by - Ibid)
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. (Quote by - Charles Wadsworth)
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Children are a great comfort in your old age ... and they help you reach it faster, too. (Quote by - Lionel Kauffman)
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. Chinese Proverb)
Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other. (Quote by - Ed Howe)
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. (Quote by - Lawrence Housman)
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. (Quote by - Graham Green)
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
The Hebrew word for parents is horim, and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most important teacher that the child will have. (Quote by - Rabbi Kassel Abelson)
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. (Quote by - Joyce Maynard)
I looked on childrearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honourable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. (Quote by - Rose Kennedy)
To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
Whoever said it first spoke with insight and wisdom: you don't own children, you only borrow them. (Quote by - Anne Linn)
Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it.Not Your Average Dictionary What is a home without children? Quiet. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. (Quote by - Sloan Wilson)
Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach. (Quote by - Arnold Glasow)
A mother understands what a child does not say. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (Quote by - Abigail Van Buren)
I am not allowed to sing, dance, laugh or wear short skirts. Having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban. (Quote by - Author Kathy Lette)
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. (Quote by - Elain Heffner)
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. (Quote by - Haim Ginott)
There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. (Quote by - Dr. Who)
Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave. (Quote by - Samuel Hoffenstein)
Creativity, flexibility, tolerance and love are natural states of mind and our purpose is to nurture them to full blossom. (Quote by - Ronit Baras)
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck- and, of course, courage. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. (Quote by - Anatole Broyard)
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear. (Quote by - Terence)
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. (Quote by - Thomas Bray)
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Kids learn integrity from us: Integrity is what we say, what we do, and what we say we do. (Quote by - Don Galer)
No one knows how children will turn out; a great tree often springs from a tender plant. (Quote by - Norwegian proverb)
Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. (Quote by - Anonymous)
To nourish children and raise them against the odds is, in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. (Quote by - Marilyn French)
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. (Quote by - E.W. Howe)
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
The problem with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are usually unemployed. (Quote by - Author Unknown)
Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness. (Quote by - William E. Blatz)
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years" (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Babies are such a nice way to start people. (Quote by - Don Herold)
Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. (Quote by - Mad Magazine)
Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious. (Quote by - Kevin Heath)
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. (Quote by - Unknown)
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. (Quote by - Homer)
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. (Quote by - Hodding Carter)
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. (Quote by - King Edward VIII)
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)
Children need love, especially when they "do not deserve" it. (Quote by - Harold Hulbert)
Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents. (Quote by - James A. Brewer)
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone. (Quote by - C. T. Davis)
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives. (Quote by - Susan Sarandon)
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions. (Quote by - Richard L. Evans)
We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him. (Quote by - Polly Berrien Berends)
Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on." (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Many have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. (Quote by - Antoine De Saint-Exupery)
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)
Encourage & support your kids because Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. (Quote by - Lady Bird Johnson)
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
The child of a tiger is a tiger. (Quote by - Haitian proverb)
Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. (Quote by - Dr. Henker)
The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering. (Quote by - Paul Reiser)
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. (Quote by - Dr. Who)
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. (Quote by - Hodding Carter, Jr.)
The real menance about dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. (Quote by - Jill Churchill)
An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. (Quote by - Doc Childre)
If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers. (Quote by - Jewish proverb)
When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly. (Quote by - W. Cecil)
Children are the proof we've been here... they are the best thing and the most impossible thing. (Quote by - Allison Pearson)
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. (Quote by - Franklin P. Jones)
I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
Mother with boy and girlStop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. (Quote by - Dr. Henker)
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. (Quote by - Michael Levine)
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands. (Quote by - Judith Jamison)
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
All children behave as well as they are treated. (Quote by - Anonymous)
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. (Quote by - Gary Smalley)
Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)
How could something so small create so much of something so disgusting? (Quote by - Steve Guttenberg)
Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad. (Quote by - Paul Smally)
God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections. (Quote by - Mary Howitt)
Presence is more than just being there. (Quote by - Malcolm Forbes)
Being a mother isn't simply a matter of having children. To think that is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. (Quote by - Sydney Harris)
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him. (Quote by - Stephen B. Leacock)
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. (Quote by - John Plomp)
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. (Quote by - Lane Olinhouse)
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. (Quote by - O. A. Battista)
Parents: People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and the rest of the time when they will turn in. (Quote by - Eleanor Graham Vance)
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. (Quote by - Peter de Vries)
Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain it dry. (Quote by - Alvin Price)
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. (Quote by - John Wilmot)
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. (Quote by - Roy L. Smith)
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the mystery of the world we live in. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. (Quote by - Dennis Fakes)
Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn (Quote by - with kids as well as with adults. (Quote by - William Attwood)
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. (Quote by - Elizabeth Stone)
Simply having children does not make mothers. (Quote by - John A. Shedd)
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. (Quote by - Polish Proverb)
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee. (Quote by - David Frost)
