Quotes and Sayings about Parents

Children & Childhood Family Birth

Quotes and Sayings about Parents

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Children & Childhood

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Johnny Depp

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Birth Father & Daughter

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Children & Childhood Family

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

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Children & Childhood

Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.

William Paul Young in The Shack

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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Family Mother Birth

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Children & Childhood Fathers Mother

I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

Patricia Polacco

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Tolerance Homosexuality & LGBTQ+

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

Michael Jordan

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Parents are but a child's first connection. Even though we don't want to be seperated, there will come the day when you must walk your own path.

Alice of the Hexenzirkel in Genshin Impact

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

Craig Ferguson

Being a father is the single greatest feeling on earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.

Ryan Reynolds

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

Ewan McGregor

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

Sandra Bullock

Sons Mother & Son

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Mayim Bialik

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.

Benjamin Spock

Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.

Scott Weiland

There's no vacation from being a parent.

Chevy Chase

My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

Geri Halliwell

There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

Mark Wahlberg

Children & Childhood

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

David Viscott

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Jennifer Aniston

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

Willie Nelson

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

James E. Faust

Children & Childhood

Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Shinichi Suzuki

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Shinichi Suzuki

Laughing & Smile

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Theodore Hesburgh

Upbringing Morality

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Kahlil Gibran

Children & Childhood Family

If you hate your parents, the man, or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really hate your parents, out earn them, out live them and know more than they do.

Henry Rollins

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Psalms - 139,14

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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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When love is deep, much can be accomplished.

Shinichi Suzuki

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

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You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

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Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

When I was a little girl I remember thinking men were these beautiful creatures created to love an protect the women of this world. Turns out I was wrong. I just had an amazing father.

Cindy Cherie

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