Best Parents Quotes:

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

- Thomas Bray

topic: Children, Parenting, Atmosphere, Inspirational Parenting, Spoiled Children

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

- C. Everett Koop

topic: Responsibility, Parenting, Generations, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

- Benjamin Spock

source: Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Children, Dad, Parenting, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Funny, Leadership, Witty, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie, Happy Children, Great Parents

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Family, Good Night, Baby, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

- David Bly

topic: Children, Parenting, Want, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

- Jill Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Perfect, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Mother, Children, Thinking, Mom And Daughter, I Love My Mother

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Family, Mothers Day, Mom, Mom And Daughter, Happy Children

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Children, Parenting, Important, Happy Children, Inspirational Parenting

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Family, Inspiring, Children, Happy Children, Kid At Heart

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

- Jane D. Hull

topic: Positive, Success, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Birthday, Family, Christmas, Kid At Heart, Inspirational Parenting

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Loss, Sons Love, Father Died

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

- Benjamin Spock

source: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

topic: Mother, Baby, Children, Inspirational Baby, Good Mother

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

- Gaspard Mermillod

topic: Relationship, Mother, Joys Of Motherhood, Just A Mom, Being A Mother

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

- P. D. James

source: P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

topic: Children, Parenting, Giving, Parent Child Relationship, Children And Parents

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Life, Motivational, Family, Joy Of Learning, Kid At Heart

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

- Marian Wright Edelman

topic: Family, Education, Children, Parents Love, Best Parents

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

- Dorothy Nolte

topic: Children, Approval, Early Childhood, Parent Child, Child Development

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Mothers Day, God, Christian, Jewish Mother, Special Mother

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

- Dorothy Nolte

topic: Children, Acceptance, Parenting, Love My Parents, Parent Child

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

- Dorothy Nolte

source: "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

topic: Children, Kids, Parenting, I Love My Children, I Love My Kids

Put Your Spouse First: When the children are grown and move out of the home, who will be left but your spouse? Nurture that relationship first and foremost. It is your role, together, to be the best parents you can be and what better way to do that than by parenting together and teaching your children (by what you say and do) that the bond of marriage is stronger than any other earthly commitment

- Miriam

topic: Children, Moving, Teaching, Best Parents, Better Ways

I've learned to become a progressive man because I have four women in my life. And their mother, who I'm not married to anymore, but who impresses me because of our relationship. Because we have a very deep and friendly relationship that is completely about who we really are now. Before it was husband, wife, mother, father. But now it's about who we are as human beings. Because we didn't give up on each other. And because we didn't hurt each other and blister each other from a divorce. We became tight. Best friends. And more than that even, because now we're best parents.

- Giancarlo Esposito

source: Source: seevanessacraft.com

topic: Mother, Hurt, Husband, Husband Wife, Blisters

Let's not ask whether the parents are gay or heterosexual. The important thing is who the best parents are in each individual case.

- Jens Spahn

source: "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

topic: Gay, Parent, Important, Best Parents

Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be.

- Bill Rancic

topic: Thinking, Appreciate, Parent, Best Parents

Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.

- Sara Quin

topic: Baby, Worry, Parent, Fungi, Garage Sale

I want to be the best parent I can be. I want to be the best husband I can be

- David Archuleta

topic: Husband, Parent, Want, Best Husband, Best Parents

If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Mother, Parent, Trying, Best Parents, Try Your Best

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

- Kaitlin Olson

topic: Thinking, Parent, Lucky, Best Parents

Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.

- Sal Albanese

source: "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

topic: Kids, Parent, Needs, Best Parents, Disparity