Quotes and Sayings About Parenting
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It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.
-- Michele Borba -
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
-- Milton Sapirstein -
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
-- Miriam Makeba -
Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
-- Mitch Albom -
In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
-- Mother Teresa -
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
-- Nadia Boulanger -
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.
-- Neil Gaiman -
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.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
-- Norma Shearer -
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
-- Og Mandino -
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
-- Orson Scott Card -
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
-- Oscar Wilde -
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
-- P. D. James -
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
-- Patricia Heaton -
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."
-- Paul Tillich -
Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.
-- Peter Gallagher -
Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.
-- Peter Krause -
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov -
What God is to the world, parents are to their children.
-- Philo -
From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
-- Plato -
Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
-- Plato -
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
-- Princess Diana -
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
-- Ralph Richardson -
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.
-- Ray Bradbury -
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
-- Ray Romano -
The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
-- Regina Brett -
A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.
-- Richard L. Evans -
The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
-- Richard Louv
