146 Quotes Regarding Parenting


What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
Benjamin Spock

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
Clive Owen

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
Kelly LeBrock

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
Marion Jones

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
Liza Minnelli

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
Robert Cormier

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
Alan Thicke

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
Milton Sapirstein

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
Reese Witherspoon

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Marcelene Cox

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.
Beverly Cleary

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
Andrew Shue

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
Norma Shearer

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
Tina Turner

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
Marjorie Holmes

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
John Sculley