Parents Quotes

Parents Quotes:

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. -Henry Ward Beecher

Parents are the very last people who ought to be allowed to have children. -H.E. Bell

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. -P. J. O’Rourke

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. -Frank A. Clark

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

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. -Anne Frank

A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it. -Frank A. Clark

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. -Elizabeth Gaskell

Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -Michael Levine

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders. -English Proverb

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. -Elbert Hubbard

Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. -Dr. Henker

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -Clarence Darrow

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. -John Dryden

There are no illegitimate children – only illegitimate parents. -Leon R. Yankwich

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. -Ellen Goodman

Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. -Karen Savage & Patricia Adams

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. -John Locke

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. -Elizabeth Stone

Which of these quotes about parents jumped out at you?