Famous Quotes And Saying by Parents
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. ~William D. Tammeus
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~Marcelene Cox
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot
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. ~Phyllis Diller
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~Josh Billings
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. ~Astrid Alauda, on the "hot mom" trend
Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson
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. ~Joyce Maynard
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~Homer
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. ~Robert Burton, "Anatomy of Melancholy," Democritus to the Reader, 1621
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~Lane Olinghouse
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. ~C.G. Jung, Integration of the Personality, 1939
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin
Simply having children does not make mothers. ~John A. Shedd
Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child. ~Gail Sheehy
Children have more need of models than of critics. ~Carolyn Coats, Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear
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
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~Hodding Carter, Jr.
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. ~Charles DeLint
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland
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. ~Karen Brown
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
~Ogden Nash, "The Parent," Happy Days, 1933
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family
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. ~Walter Scott
You will always be your child's favorite toy. ~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. ~P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
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. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott
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. ~Andrew Carnegie
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. ~Jean Kerr
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~Oscar Wilde
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
You can learn a lot about people and there quotes and sayings. Some are Funny, cute, and some can bring a tear to your eye.
As a Young Parent of a 15 month old som, I love to read these.
Hope you all enjoy them the way I do.
Timothy
