Parent Quotes

She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining on me.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.

~ Sophie Kinsella

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

~ Jessica Valenti

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

~ Henry Adams

Why isn't there a commandment to honor thy children or at least one to not abuse thy children? The notion that we must honor our parents causes many people to bury their real feelings and set aside their own needs in order to have a relationship with people they would otherwise not associate with. Parents, like anyone else, need to earn respect and honor, and honoring parents who are negative and abusive is not only impossible but extremely self-abusive. Perhaps, as with anything else, honoring our parents starts with honoring ourselves. For many adult children, honoring themselves means not having anything to do with one or both of their parents.

~ Beverly Engel

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.

~ Elizabeth George

Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his days with the bottle, as if he determined to drink himself to death, as if his alcohol could hold back the disease that swept through his brain.

~ Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she hasn't heard from me in months. The precarious laughter as she comes from the kitchen, when I finally do appear on her doorstep, the laughter that says I might be a chickadee that's alighted unexpectedly on her thumb.

~ Trevor Cole

If you’re being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God’s hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!

~ Stormie Omartian

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

~ Jodi Picoult

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

~ Jodi Picoult

ParentNothing … No One Prepares a parent to raise the childNothing … No One Can ever prepare a parent to bear the loss of child

~ Neena Verma

Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.

~ J.r. Rim

He wants his children to have an old life and a new life, a life that is indivisible from all lives past, that grows from them, exceeds them, and another that is original, pure, free, that is beyond the prejudice which protects us, the habit which gives us shape. He wants them to know both degradation and sainthood, the one without humiliation, the other without ignorance.

~ James Salter

Had any parent ever succeeded in hiding marital unhappiness from their child?

~ Rafael Yglesias

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.

~ Jodi Picoult

Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

~ Stacey Lee

If you believe that your needs were met because you prayed, then you make God the parent who reacts only when the baby cries. Matthew 6:25-34.

~ Felix Wantang

Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from pick up your socks to we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Children are angels.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

~ Robert Evans

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

~ John Ciardi

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

~ Christina Aguilera

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

~ Drew Barrymore

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

~ Sia

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

~ Salman Rushdie

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

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.

~ Hilary Duff

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I'm an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

~ Brené Brown

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

~ Virginia Satir

We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

~ Dale Archer

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

~ Gary Oldman

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

~ Marlee Matlin

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

~ Adam Mansbach

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

~ Essie Davis

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

~ Mayim Bialik

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

~ Anthony Edwards

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

~ Dale Archer