Parenting Quotes

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."

Sophocles

"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."

Josh Billings

"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Elbert Hubbard

"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."

William Temple

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."

Abigail Van Buren

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."

Edward VIII

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."

Maria Montessori

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"

Maria Montessori

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

Fred Rogers

"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me."

Fred Rogers

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."

Doug Larson

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath."

Arnold H. Glasow

"Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age."

William Feather

"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."

Paulo Coelho

"In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time."

Laurence J. Peter

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings."

"To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."

Barbara Johnson

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

Sigmund Freud

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

"Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad."

Anne Geddes

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."

George Herbert

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."

Gaspard Mermillod