To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
Don't demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn -- with kids as well as with adults.
William Attwood
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott
A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.
Spanish proverb
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Marcelene Cox
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.
Fred Rogers
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
Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of.
Bruce Lansky
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes.
Chinese Proverb
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Abraham Lincoln
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.
Queen Rania of Jordan
To nourish children and raise them against the odds is, in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.
Sloan Wilson