Sayings about Parenting
What children hear their parents say by the fireside, they repeat in the highway. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Parents can give everything but common sense. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Bad children? Guilty parents! ~ Myanmar Proverb
The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel. ~ Chinese Proverb
When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents. ~ Japanese Proverbs
As long as you have the blessing of your parents it does not matter even if you live in the mountains. ~ Greek proverbs
Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves. ~ Chinese Proverb
Children grow up, with or without parents. ~ Japanese Proverb
To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb
Parents can give their children everything except good luck. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. ~ Chinese Proverb
Children are buttonholes that hold their parents together. ~ Arabian Proverb
Our parents taught us to speak and the world taught us to be silent. ~ Czech Proverbs
Quotations about Parents
The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed. ~ Author Unknown
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. ~ Joseph Addison Quotes
Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn’t felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people? ~ Joe E. Wells
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ~ Frank A. Clark
Children learn to smile from their parents. ~ Shinichi Suzuki
The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. ~ Frank Pittman
Parents, they’re strict on you when you’re little, and you don’t understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it. ~ Grant Hill
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. ~ Robin G. Collingwood
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. ~ Mel Lazarus
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~ Edward, Duke of Windsor
There are no illegitimate children — only illegitimate parents. ~ Leon R. Yankwich
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ~ Author Unknown
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. ~ P.J. O’Rourke
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell
It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~ Marcelene Cox
Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ~ Michael Levine
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ~ Colette
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent. ~ Don Marquis
You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back. ~ William D. Tammeus
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! ~ Samuel G. Goodrich
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. ~ Alvin Toffler
Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn’t. ~ L. L. Hendren
Parents know best how to push our buttons because they installed them. ~ Author Unknown
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. ~ Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes. ~ Michael Jordan
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. ~ Red Auerbach
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. ~ Raymond Duncan
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. ~ Orlando A. Battista
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~ Clarence Darrow
If your parents didn’t have any children, there’s a good chance that you won’t have any. ~ Clarence Day
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. ~ John Locke
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it. ~ Haim Ginott
The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard. ~ John Lennon
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ~ Benjamin Spock
The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. ~ Joyce Maynard
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet. ~ Bill Cosby
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ~ Francis Bacon
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. ~ Bette Davis
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. ~ Samuel Butler
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he’s always apologizing, his children are monsters. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. ~ Elbert Hubbard
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? ~ (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~ Lane Olinghouse
Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of. ~ Bruce Lansky
The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself. ~ A. P. Gouthey
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. ~ Bill Cosby
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots. ~ Jeremy P. Johnson