Parenthood Quotes

The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately -- they talk to the heart.

Hain Ginott

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.

Henry Ward Beecher

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

O. A. Battista

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

E.W. Howe

Presence is more than just being there.

Malcolm Forbes

Parents: People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and the rest of the time when they will turn in.

Eleanor Graham Vance

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.

Arnold Glasow

One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.

C. T. Davis

Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.

James A. Brewer

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.

C. Everet Koop, M.D.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

Bill Cosby

God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

Mary Howitt

Children are the proof we've been here... they are the best thing and the most impossible thing.

Allison Pearson

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

Homer