Parents Quotes
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
Children have more need of models than of critics. (Quote by - Carolyn Coats)
A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. (Quote by - John Wilmot)
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. (Quote by - Haim Ginott)
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)
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. (Quote by - Lane Olinghouse)
Simply having children does not make mothers. (Quote by - John A. Shedd)
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)
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. (Quote by - C.G. Jung)
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. (Quote by - The Talmud)
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted. (Quote by - George A. Dorsey)
You see much more of your children once they leave home. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people? (Quote by - Joe E. Wells)
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. (Quote by - Buddy Hackett)
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents. (Quote by - Leon R. Yankwich)
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)
You will always be your child's favorite toy. (Quote by - Vicki Lansky)
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. (Quote by - Mell Lazarus)
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. (Quote by - Colette)
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people. (Quote by - Colonel Potter)
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother. (Quote by - Rose Kennedy)
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. (Quote by - Marilyn Penland)
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. (Quote by - Edward)
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. (Quote by - Red Buttons)
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. (Quote by - Raymond Duncan)
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. (Quote by - Polish Proverb)
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. (Quote by - Homer)
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. (Quote by - Lionel Kauffman)
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
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)
Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child. (Quote by - Gail Sheehy)
Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. (Quote by - Marcelene Cox)
Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids. (Quote by - Sam Levenson)
A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. (Quote by - John Andrew Holmes)
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. (Quote by - Haim Ginott)
Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. (Quote by - Lotte Bailyn)
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)
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. (Quote by - Judith Martin)
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. (Quote by - Robert Fulghum)
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. (Quote by - Charles DeLint)
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Your children need your presence more than your presents. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. (Quote by - Billy Cosby)
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. (Quote by - Clarence Day)
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children." (Quote by - Susan Savannah)
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection. (Quote by - Frank H. Cheley)
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. (Quote by - William Feather)
The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. (Quote by - John J. Plomp)
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. (Quote by - Hodding Carter, Jr.)
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. (Quote by - P.D. James)
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)
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)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Quote by - Theodore M. Hesburgh)
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
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)
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
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! (Quote by - Samuel Griswold Goodrich)
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
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. (Quote by - Walter Scott)
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)
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)
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. (Quote by - Bill Dodds)
What's done to children, they will do to society. (Quote by - Karl Menninger)
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does. (Quote by - Joey Adams)
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Quote by - Roger Lewin)
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)
There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time. (Quote by - Karen Brown)
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (Quote by - Abigail Van Buren)
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential. (Quote by - R.D. Laing)
