All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Parents should provide children with a strong foundation and the freedom to explore their potential.
This quote emphasizes the dual role of parents in a child's life, suggesting that they must provide both a solid base of cultural values and belonging (roots) as well as the encouragement and independence to pursue their own path (wings). This balance allows children to grow into well-rounded individuals who are grounded yet capable of venturing out into the world with confidence.
Themes
ChildrenParentsRootsWingsGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared during a parenting workshop to highlight the responsibilities of parents.
More from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
All quotes βDestiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
Similar quotes
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelRead
Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.
Gautama BuddhaRead
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De VriesRead
I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.
Stacey AbramsRead
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.
Ellen GoodmanRead
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emily DickinsonRead