Quotes about Parents

Special people in our lives our often our parents. Share these quotes about parents with your Mom and Dad. Let them know you are thinking about them and how much they mean to you.


While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. Author Unknown

I appreciated and understood my parents more once I became a parent. Catherine Pulsifer

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. Leo F. Buscaglia

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes Chinese Proverbs

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends Jacques Delille

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners Author Unknown

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. Chinese Proverbs

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. Walt Disney

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. Michael Jordan

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. Rodney Dangerfield

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. Woody Allen

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby

That ís sort of a cliche about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.
Heather Armstrong

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard

Your focus as a parent is best spent on the people you love, not on ways to keep the family busy. Timothy Smith, Connecting with Your Kids

What you say and do in front of your children influences their thinking and behavior. You are their model. Sal Severe, Ph.D., How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too!


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

Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.
Marcelene Cox

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone

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

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
Bette Davis

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
Robert MacNeil



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