Parenting Quotes

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

Jim Valvano

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

Clarence Budington Kelland

"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."

Princess Diana

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

Henry Ward Beecher

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."

Jill Churchill

"Parenthood... It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last."

Peter Krause

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."

Neil Postman

"Children are our most valuable resource."

Herbert Hoover

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."

Harold Hulbert

"Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

Jim Henson

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

Benjamin Spock

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

Benjamin Spock

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

Stacia Tauscher

"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."

Haim Ginott

"Our children are not going to be just 'our children' – they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren."

Mary S. Calderone

"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day."

O. A. Battista

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."

Kahlil Gibran

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

Kahlil Gibran

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Pablo Picasso

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."