Parenting Quotes

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly."

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."

"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."

"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."

"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

"He'll more than likely have to go to counseling, get parenting classes."

"I think what it means is that in all unmarried parenting situations, that they are going to be held to the same standard as if they were married when they want to leave the state with their child. What this in essence does is to add stability to the non-custodial parent's visitation rights."

"If women want to work and are more satisfied, the quality of their parenting is going to be better."

"It takes a village to raise a child"

"Being a friend to your child is the best gift you give to your child."

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

"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

"Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station."

"Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make."

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes."

"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."