Quotes on Parenting

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

Kindness effects more than severity.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.