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)