Quotes About Parents
Here are some words of my favorite quotes about parents:
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
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
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
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis
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
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~Hodding Carter, Jr.
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott
Kids spell love T-I-M-E. ~John Crudele
The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. ~Frank Pittman, Man Enough
I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models…. It’s not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn’t like it, they said, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.” Parents have to take better control. ~Charles Barkley
Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. ~Dave Barry
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. ~Sloan Wilson
If I had my child to raise all over again,
I’d build self-esteem first, and the house later.
I’d finger-paint more, and point the finger less.
I would do less correcting and more connecting.
I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.
I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I’d do more hugging and less tugging.
~Diane Loomans, from “If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again”
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971
Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection. ~Frank H. Cheley
Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play. ~Lotte Bailyn
Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet. ~Bill Cosby
Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn’t. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says “keep away from children.” ~Susan Savannah
In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time. ~Author Unknown