Quotations About Parents
Related: Parenting, Family, Fathers, Mothers
Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.
Victoria Secunda
Women and Their Fathers, 1992
Women and Their Fathers, 1992
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.
Sophia Loren
Women and Beauty
Women and Beauty
You will always be your child's favorite toy.
Vicki Lansky
Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991
Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. James
Time to Be in Earnest
Time to Be in Earnest
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats
Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear
Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
The Strong Family
The Strong Family
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.
Karen Savage and Patricia Adams
The Good Stepmother
The Good Stepmother
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather
The Business of Life, 1949
The Business of Life, 1949
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Social Studies
Social Studies
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.
D.W. Winnicott
Playing and Reality, 1971
Playing and Reality, 1971
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child
Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Philothea: A Romance, 1836
One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
Louise J. Kaplan
Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978
Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
New York Times, 26 August 1971
New York Times, 26 August 1971
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette
My Mother's House, 1922
My Mother's House, 1922
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward, Duke of Windsor
Look, 5 March 1957
Look, 5 March 1957
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn
Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994
Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994
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.
C.G. Jung
Integration of the Personality, 1939
Integration of the Personality, 1939
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood, 1986
Fatherhood, 1986
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood, 1986
Fatherhood, 1986
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.
Toni Morrison
Beloved, 1987
Beloved, 1987
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams
Animal Dreams
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Marion C. Garretty
A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul
A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
"Anatomy of Melancholy," Democritus to the Reader, 1621
"Anatomy of Melancholy," Democritus to the Reader, 1621
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Chinese Proverb
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
Moorish Proverb
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
Jewish Proverb
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Spanish Proverb
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Chinese Proverb
You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
Polish Proverb
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter