Quotes on Parenting

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.