Parents Quotes
Enjoy our collection of famous parents quotes to live by. Parents, and their wisdom, provide us with inspiration, motivation and guidance in all manners of daily life.. We hope you find these parents quotes will help you or someone you know to live the life that shows love and devotion.As I began to reflect on who my mentors have been, how I've been able to pick up a phone and call and meet and share time with some of the most talented, creative, and innovative minds in the world, I realized that I am not only a product of my family, experiences, and education, I am a product of my community.
Shevaun Voisin,
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.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
Kofi Annan
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.
David Bly
Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly.
W. Cecil
To understand your parents' love, you must raise children yourself.
Chinese Proverb
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joubert
John Wilmot
Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.
Marcelene Cox
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
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
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
Lane Olinghouse
A father's goodness is higher than the mountain,
a mother's goodness deeper than the sea.
Japanese Proverb
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege,
than the raising of the next generation.
C. Everet Koop, M.D.
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
When you have children yourself,
you begin to understand what you owe your parents.
Japanese Proverb
The best inheritance a parent can give his children
is a few minutes of his time each day.
O. A. Battista
The world talks to the mind.
Parents speak more intimately, they talk to the heart.
Hain Ginott
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