Parenting Quotes

"To her, the name of father was another name for love."

Fanny Fern

"Lately all my friends are worried they're turning into their fathers. I'm worried I'm not."

Dan Zevin

"Father! To God himself we cannot give a holier name."

William Wordsworth

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

Theodore Hesburgh

"Life doesn't come with an instruction book—that's why we have fathers."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

Erich Fromm

"Men are what their mothers made them."

"The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother."

"Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother."

Ann Taylor

"A mother is the truest friend we have."

Washington Irving

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness."

Stevie Wonder

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."

Alex Haley

"If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first."

Lois Wyse

"A house needs a grandma in it."

Louisa May Alcott

"Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation."

Lydia Sigourney

"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."

Roy L. Smith

"Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships."

Jodie Foster

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

Ambrose Bierce

"The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher."

Robert Brault

"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."

Bill Vaughan

"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."

Marcelene Cox

"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses."

Joyce Brothers

"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."

Ruth E. Renkel

"You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts."

Kahlil Gibran