Best Parent Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

As a man, I’ve been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

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

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

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.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’

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

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

I actually didn’t enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can’t teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They’re their own person.

There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It’s in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.

Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

I like my life. I’ve had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it’s an easy burden.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.