Quotes For Parents (123 quotes, page 2)

“You never know what's coming for you.”

Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

Goodbye , Graduation

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

Source: Homeland and Other Stories

Heart Touching , Mother's Day , For Mother , Law

“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”

Joyce Carol Oates The Gravedigger's Daughter

Source: The Gravedigger's Daughter

“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

Happy , For Wife , love , Wise

“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.”

William Feather (1889–1981) Publisher, Author

Also quoted in Every Day Is Father's Day: The Best Things Ever Said About Dear Old Dad (1989), p. 150
The Business of Life (1949)

Mother's Day , For Mother , Children , Age

“There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.”

Leon Rene Yankwich (1888–1975) United States federal judge

Zipkin v. Mozon (June 1928)
Quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations by Peter McDonald (2004) p. 108

Children , Parent

“Man knows that love is, but not what it is.”

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian

Divine Love and Wisdom #1

love , Anniversary , Wedding , For Men

“I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”

Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman

As quoted in Edison & Ford Quote Book (2003) edited by Edison & Ford Winter Estates.
Date unknown

Life

“You see much more of your children once they leave home.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Quoted in Carolyn Warner, The Last Word, ch. 16 (1992)

Children , Home

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

Graduation , Mother's Day , For Mother , Men

“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”

George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3

Inspirational , love , Wise , Deep

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

Jean Kerr book Please Don't Eat the Daisies

"How to Get the Best of Your Children"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

Family , Time

“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.”

Robert Orben (1928) American magician and writer

Cheryl Lavin (June 10, 1991) "Something Weird", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. 1D.
Attributed

Children , Way , Home

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Children , Parent

“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.”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Leaving the Surface (1968)

Children , Beauty , Parent , Learning

“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

"Education" http://books.google.com/books?id=iRAWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Respect+the+child+Be+not+too+much+his+parent+Trespass+not+on+his+solitude%22&pg=PA116#v=onepage, Lectures and biographical sketches (1883), p.116

Parent , Solitude

“My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.”

Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer

Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin

For Father , Life , Pain , Perseverance

“The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Parents and Children
Essays (1625)
Context: The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.

Secret , Fear , Parent , Joy

“So these are changes that are important.”

Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist

Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Context: Today I can’t comment on what the problem is in China, Russia, or Africa without realizing again and again the Diamond Sutra, which says that we look at the world and see it as separate but in fact, this is an illusion, but the reality is that we are one shining being. Until this can be understood, I can’t see any change. But I see some change now. There is a world consciousness. In the "old" New Age, they talked about the Age of Aquarius being an age of enlightenment. And now when a man goes to the moon he sees the earth. Before when someone did meditation he or she could meditate on the earth and the moon but now a man and a woman can see that we are on one planet and that the water is polluted and that the air is dirty. So these are changes that are important. But when we spoke about these things in the 60s people said we were dreamers.

love , For women , Success , Funny

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ”

Теннева Джордан

Mother's Day , For Mother , People , Personality