Parents Quotes

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

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
L. Tom Perry

Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in a crisis and need something. Michellee Chuck Palahniuk

A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
Eda J. Le Shan

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

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Hodding Carter, Jr

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. Chinese Proverbs

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank A. Clark

There is nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
H. R. Schaffer

What children take from us, they give. We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sonia Taitz

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. Chinese Proverbs

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll

Becoming a new parent is a learning experience, you can read all the books, listen to all the advice, but you will find you will grow with your children. They will teach you things you could never read in a book. C Lynch

Before you were conceived, I wanted you
Before you were born, I loved you
Before you were here an hour,
I would die for you
This is the miracle of love.
Maureen Hawkins

You will always be your child's favorite toy.
Vicki Lansky

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. Jacques Delille

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

Kids spell love T-I-M-E.
John Crudele

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty

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

It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.
Terri Guillemets

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

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior. Amy Vanderbilt

Being pregnant, as it turns out, is not about keeping in, but instead, it is the first step in letting go.
Suzy Vitello

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.
Rose Kennedy

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herrold

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
Mignon McLaughlin

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. Thich Nhat Hanh

Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Hoover

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
E.W. Howe

Motherhood is, after all, woman’s great and incomparable work.
Edward Carpenter

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.” Elbert Hubbard

I always wondered why babies spent so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
Robert Orben

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
The Talmud

If your baby’s beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you’re the grandma.
Theresa Bloomingdale

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.
John Andrew Holmes

You can learn things from children. How much patience you have for instance.
Franklin P. Jones

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
Polish Proverb

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov

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