Quotes For Parents

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

“It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”

“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”

“The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

“No matter where you go, there you are”

“Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

“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.”

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”

“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”

“I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. ”

“Love life more than the meaning of it.”

“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

“You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.”

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”

“Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?”

“You are my life, but you are not my purpose.”

“There are never enough 'I love you's.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”

“Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.”

“Where there is nothing, there is God.”

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

“WE live in this world when we love it.”

“I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”

“That's not my love; that's just your life.”

“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”

“Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

“These are images of what love is about.”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ”

“Everything is beautiful if you love it.”

“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”

“I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.”

“Children see magic because they look for it.”

“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”

“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.”

“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.”

“There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”

“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.”

“It's not always easy being her daughter.'

I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”

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

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”

“Truth is in things, and not in words.”

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

“When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”

“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”

“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”

“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”

“Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.”

“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”

“It is more than possible; it is probable.”

“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”

“There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.”

“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”

“Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.”

“It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.”

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..”

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”

“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”

“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”

“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”

“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.”

“We are the people our parents warned us about.”

“The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their own good.”

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.”

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

“The days are long, but the years are short.”

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.”

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”

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

“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”