Parenting Quotes

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons."

Friedrich Schiller

"Children are a great comfort in your old age—and they help you reach it faster, too."

Lionel Kauffman

"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."

Alvin Toffler

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."

Walt Streightiff

"Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be."

David Bly

"Children learn to smile from their parents."

Shinichi Suzuki

"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires."

Dorothy Parker

"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement."

Rachel Carson

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."

Rachel Carson

"Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun."

Mignon McLaughlin

"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."

Mignon McLaughlin

"The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable."

Lane Olinghouse

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds."

"Children are the living jewels dropped unstained from heaven."

Robert Pollok

"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky."

Fran Lebowitz

"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."

Fran Lebowitz

"Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life."

Muriel Spark

"I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us."

Charles Dickens

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

Franklin P. Jones

"The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough."

Anna Quindlen

"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."

William Stafford

"Children see magic because they look for it."

Christopher Moore

"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."

Abbé Prévost

"When my father didn't have my hand, he had my back."

Linda Poindexter