Parenting Quotes

"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."

John Trainer

"The days are long, but the years are short."

Gretchen Rubin

"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life."

Robertson Davies

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."

Peter Ustinov

"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."

Khaled Hosseini

"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."

Norman Douglas

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do."

Jean de La Bruyère

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."

"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."

Terence

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

Harry S. Truman

"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."

Meryl Streep

"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."

Pablo Casals

"Children need models rather than critics."

Joseph Joubert

"Simply having children does not make mothers."

John A. Shedd

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."

Michael J. Fox

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

George Santayana

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family."

Anthony Brandt

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Jane Howard

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

Billy Graham

"What is a home without children? Quiet."

Henny Youngman

"Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears."

Kate Winslet

"There is no more vital calling or vocation for men than fathering."

John Eldredge

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."

Billy Graham

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity."

Agatha Christie

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

Honoré de Balzac