Parenting Quotes

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

Robert Browning

"The phrase 'working mother' is redundant."

Jane Sellman

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

William Makepeace Thackeray

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."

Barbara Kingsolver

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love."

Mildred B. Vermont

"Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation."

Lois Wyse

"Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man."

Frank Pittman

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

Charles Wadsworth

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

Mark Twain

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

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"Discipline is helping a child solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem."

L. R. Knost

"Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming."

Haim Ginott

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

Anne Sullivan

"The best thing to spend on your children is your time."

Louise Hart

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."

Louis Pasteur

"Children are the priority. Change is the reality. Collaboration is the strategy."

Judith Billings

"The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation."

Ray L. Wilbur

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."

Graham Greene

"Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows."

John Betjeman

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too."

Joyce Maynard

"Children make you want to start life over."

Muhammad Ali