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Quotations About Parents

Related: Parenting, Family, Fathers, Mothers

Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

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

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

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

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

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

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.