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A Few Thoughts About the Importance of Parents in Our Lives

Parents are the most important people in our lives. They teach us to love and care for others, they teach us about life, and they are always there for us when we need them. But the truth is that sometimes children don’t know how to show their love for their parents. And this is where quotes come in handy – because they provide a way of expressing what words cannot. . Here are some of the best quotes about parenting for children to help them express their love.

Do you want to show your appreciation to your parents for their support? These inspiring quotes for parents will help!

Please let us know which resonated with you most in the comments section below.

“We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up.” ― Phyllis Diller
“Being a working parent sometimes is unbelievably heartbreaking and hard but thank god for FaceTime (even if it’s blurry).” — Busy Philipps
“Being a parent is very important to me.” — Diana Ross
“You, the parent, are your child’s first teacher and his best teacher. It’s an awesome responsibility, but one that brings immeasurable rewards.” – Jacquie McTaggart

“To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.” –Chinese Proverb
“Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.”— Ed Asner
“Motherhood doesn’t have to be so serious and structured. There’s something freeing about poking fun at yourself and being silly from time to time.”—Eliza Morrill
“But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.” –
“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” — Nora Ephron
“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.” ― Anne Fadiman

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.” –Henry Ward Beecher
“Nurturing never happens in a rush.” — Emma Scheib
“A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.” — John Andrew Holmes
“It’s not difficult to take care of a child; it’s difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child.” — Julianne Moore
“The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.”― Joyce Maynard
“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.” ― P. J. O’Rourke
“Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.” – Bob Keeshan
“So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.” ― Virginia Satir
“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
“No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children.” ― Manu Joseph
“Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.”— P. J. O’Rourke
“A mother will birth her baby once, but she will spend a lifetime birthing a person.”― Craig D. Lounsbrough
“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
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.” — Carl Jung
“Just because you’re a parent doesn’t mean your needs aren’t important.” — Hilary Duff
“The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.” — Vera Farmiga

“Nobody on earth can ever love you more than your parents.” – Anonymous
“A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” – Helen Rice
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” ― Lemony Snicket
“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
“We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.”— Christopher Morley
“Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.” – Bob Harper
“Biology does not make a man a father–nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.”― Andrew Vachss
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”— Phyllis Diller
“I don’t think it matters how many parents you’ve got, as long as those who are around making their presence a good one.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel
“My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.” – Gwyneth Paltrow

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“More specifically being a dad is a diverse responsibility, and it is also defined by providing support to your partner in the glorious journey of parenthood.” – Natalie L. S. West
“Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it’s to raise kids who become great adults.” — Andy Andrews
“My parents…were people running from the past, who didn’t look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.”― Richard Ford
“The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.” — Benjamin Spock
“You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.” – Jennifer Hudson
“There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” ― Sophie Kinsella
“Let’s be honest, kids take the number one position and it’s haaaaard to make the time for yourself.” — Kate Hudson
“You will always be your child’s favorite toy.” – Vicki Lansky
“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.” ― Fredrik Backman
“There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom, and I love being a friend to my children as well.” — Marlee Matlin
“As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” – Kevin Heath

“Parents should be the most important examples for their children.” – Christy Turlington
“Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.” — Paul Reiser
“The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.” — James E. Faust
“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” – Jane D. Hull
“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
“I might run out of space in my brain, but I never run out of space in my heart.”—Allison Slater Tate
“You see much more of your children once they leave home.” – Lucille Ball
“Parents, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, drink, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter.”― Eric Berne

“My parents loved us but I wasn’t always sure they liked us.” –Tahereh Maf
“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”— Bill Ayers
“My advice for new moms is this: You’ve have never been a mom before, and your baby is new to this world. So be kind to yourself, and be patient. It takes time, but you’ll get the hang of it!” — Hillary Clinton
“More than children can know what’s good for their parents, the parents know what’s good for their children.”― VKBoy
“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.” — Erma Bombeck

“The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.”― Stewart Stafford
“There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.” –
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” — James Baldwin
“The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.” ― Noah Webster
“Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to make it dry.” — Alvin H. Price
“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it’s your job to stand in the way.” ― Joe Hill
“Most important jobs of a parent: unconditional love, comfort and protection, and a solid platform and values for future success.”― M. James Airey
“Every generation just wants their kids to have a better ‘Spiderman’ reboot than they did.” – Conan O’Brien
“I feel like I’ve lived quite a sheltered life like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.” – Leona Lewis
“The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.” — Brene Brown
“We love being your parents, but we also like being your fellow travelers on this part of the road.”― Erin Lee Carr
“Parents are defined by their mistakes.”― Fredrik Backman
“Parental love is the only love that is truly selfless, unconditional and forgiving.” – T.P. Chia
“It’s about respect and the morals and the value of life. And treat people how you want to be treated. That’s the biggest thing I was brought up on by my parents.” – A. J. Green
“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”― Amit Kalantri
“My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had the stuff to do.” ― Mindy Kaling
“Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.” — Jillian Michaels
“Parents are without a doubt, one of the most, if not the most influential role models that their kids will probably have under normal circumstances.” – Joseph R. Parker
“Children have more need of models than of critics.” — Carolyn Coats

“No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.” –Brad Meltzer
“If your parents didn’t have any children, there’s a good chance that you won’t have any.” – Clarence Day
“There is no such thing as being the perfect parent. So just be a real one.” — Sue Atkins
“It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of the foods that my kid didn’t finish…” – Carrie Underwood
“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”― John Wilmot
“When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn’t go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.” ― Jude Watson
“Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.” — Lotte Bailyn
“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan
“The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. Sophie Kinsella
“Whatever you’re stressing out about, would you want your child someday to put that same pressure on themselves? If not, it’s totally reasonable to set it aside.”—Dr. Deborah Gilboa
“Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.” – Barbara Walters
“For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.” ― Upasana Saraf
“When you realize your parents are human, that’s when you lose your innocence.”― Lidia Longorio
“What’s done to children, they will do to society.” — Karl Menninger
“Parents are living gods. They do everything to make their children happy and expect nothing in return.”― Saravana Kumar Murugan
“Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children.”― Samuel Butler
“The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.” — Meryl Streep
“We are the people our parents warned us about.” – Jimmy Buffett
“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” – Billy Graham
“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.” – Elbert Hubbard
“My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.” – Kobe Bryant
“Children learn to smile from their parents.” — Shinichi Suzuki
“The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.” — Ewan McGregor
“Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do.”― Harlan Coben
“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather
“Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.” — Banksy
“Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?” ― Rick Riordan
“Love, respect and appreciate your parents as it is the one gift they truly cherish and desire.”― Margo Vader
“The point of parenting is not to have all the answers before we start out but instead to figure it out on the go as our children grow. Because as they do, so will we.”— Bridgett Miller
“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
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” –O. A. Battista
“Appreciate your parents. You never know what sacrifices they went through for you.” – Anonymous
“The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.”— Meryl Streep
“I’m a good blend of both my mom and dad.” – Danica Patrick
“Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn’t. — Mignon McLaughlin
“The problem with parents is that they’re adults.”― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?”Catherine Lacey
“Stepparents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather augment a child’s life experience.” – Azriel Johnson
“Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.” — Miriam Makeba
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.” — Jackie Kennedy
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” ― Jesse Jackson
“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.” – Peter Ustinov
“Our parent’s prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations.”– Aditia Rinaldi
“Having children is like living in a frat house — nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.” —Ray Romano
“Let’s be honest, kids take the number one position and it’s haaaaard to make the time for yourself.” — Kate Hudson
“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.” — Dorothy Parker
“There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that isn’t glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No matter what, there was always a thick safety net under this trapeze.” — Tina Fey
“The only job a parent has works themselves out of a job.”― Holly Gates
“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” — Nora Ephron
“Parenting is a lifetime job and does not stop when a child grows up.” –Jake Slope
“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.” — Bette Davis
“Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they’d consider wrong. Or at least risky.”― Rachel Caine
“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us.” – Alexander McCall Smith
“A good father is a source of inspiration and self-restraint. A good mother is the root of kindness and humbleness.”– Dr. T.P.Chia
“Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.” — Shaquille O’Neal
“To your parents, you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father’s hand and your mother’s lap.”― Amit Kalantri
“My parents didn’t raise me to order something expensive when someone else is paying.”― Nitya Prakash
“A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.” –Robert Brault
“My parents always told me, ‘Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.’ They told me to make sure that you are happy.” – Dylan Lauren
“I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening.” — Melissa Etheridge
“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”― Joyce Carol Oates
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.” — Gloria Steinem
“For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it’s not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you’ll ever have…” — Emma Donoghue
“Our parents are Our Gods.”― Avijeet Das
“You nurtured and protected me and taught me with great care. And every time I’ve needed you, you were always there.” — Ron Tranmer
“It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.” – Haley Reinhart
“That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.” ― Ivan Turgenev
“They’re your parents. They’re meant to love you because. Never in spite.” ― Patrick Ness
“Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.”— Martin Mull
“Imagine the progress in education and a child’s school and life success if parents embraced their role as their child’s first teacher and role model.” – James L. Casale
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.” ― Alice Munro
“Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.” – Tori Amos
Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children. — Charles R. Swindoll
“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”― Jane Goodall
“No one in this world can love a girl more than her father.” – Michael Ratnadeepak
“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“We grow up expecting our parents to live forever until, one day, they’re suddenly gone.”Riley Sager
“Sometimes the storms in our lives make us better people, and they give us an appreciation for all the things that other people take for granted.”—Shannon Stringer
“Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.”― Jeanette Winterson
“What’s it like to be a parent? It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange, it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.” —
“Any parents are as ordinary human beings as others, making them angels or even more, is up to their next generation.”― Sandeep Sahajpal
“I love my father as the stars –he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.” – Terri Guillemets
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.” — Haim Ginott
“Our parents are the coolest parents ever.”― Sharad Vivek Sagar
“Having a child is like getting a tattoo … on your face. You better be committed.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
“If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says “keep away from children.” — Susan Savannah
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” ― Franklin P. Adams
“That’s all kids want to know—that you love them.”― Kim Harrison
“What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange, it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”― Nicholas Sparks
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Parenting is the greatest pay-it-forward system on earth. We don’t owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.”― Dan Pearce
“As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we’re talking to them that our kids aren’t listening.” — Robert Brault
“One of the greatest titles in the world is a parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.” – Jim DeMint
“It’s quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
“Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.” — Eric Church
“As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” – Kevin Heath
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” — Barbara Kingsolver
“In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” ― Randy Susan Meyers
“While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.” –Angela Schwindt
“It is time for parents to teach young people that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” –Maya Angelou
“Every day, in a hundred small ways our children ask, “Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter” Their behavior often reflects our response.” — L.R. Knost
“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.” ― Benedict Cumberbatch
“Words of “unconditional love” defines as a mothers love, respect your parents.”― Sourav Adhikari
“I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.” — Mayim Bialik
“Parents can cultivate the character of a child, not the competence of a child.”― Amit Kalantri
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.” — Banksy
“Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.”― Bee Wilson
“A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.” – Dave Barry
“On our 6 a.m. walk, my daughter asked where the moon goes each morning. I let her know it’s in heaven, visiting Daddy’s freedom.” — Ryan Reynolds
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding, high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.” — Lorde
“Being a working parent sometimes is unbelievably heartbreaking and hard but thank god for FaceTime (even if it’s blurry).” — Busy Philipps
“Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.” – Tina Fey
“Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles.” ― Mary Lydon Simonsen
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” –Oscar Wilde
“Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” — Matthew Jacobson
“It is the sunlight of parental love and encouragement that enables a child to grow in competence and slowly gain mastery over his environment.” –Felicity Bauer
“Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.” — Amy Vanderbilt
“Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time.” – Kevin Heath
“Most things are good, and they are the strongest things, but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.” — Walt Disney
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” –Jewish Proverb
“There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” — Anne Lamott
“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather
“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. — Erma Bombeck
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” — Jill Churchill
“You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you’ll see.” — Robert Charles Wilson
“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
“Good parents hardly parent. They let their kids learn, fail, and grow without interference.”― Trevor Carss
“Balance is what it’s all about no matter what your job is. Being a mom, working, and dividing your time. It’s what we all have to do as mothers.” — Carrie Underwood
“No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience…”Amit Kalantri
“No matter how many books you read or advice I get, y’all never be ready for mommy mode.” — Cardi B
“My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.” –Michael Jordan
“Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.” –Unknown
“Children are not a lifelong sentence but a lifelong reward.” ― Jacqui Shepherd
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – Anne Frank
“Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.” — Elisabeth Hasselbeck
“My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.”― Ralph Webster
“If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove.”― Ron Baratono
“Sometimes just look at your parents as normal human beings not as your parents.”― Aashu Kandoi
“‘I don’t think so Mommy!’ is what my child said after, ‘Can you please pick up the popcorn you threw all over?’” – Anna Faris
“It’s difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be.”― Amy Meyerson
“Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.” – Susana Martinez
“My heroes were my parents, I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.” – Michael Jordan
“Children must never work for our love, they must rest in it.”— Gordon Neufeld
“The child supplies the power, but the parents have to do the steering.” – Benjamin Spock
The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other. — Janet Blaustone
“One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.” – Jim DeMint
“Next to God, thy parents.” – William Penn
“Our parents are always an important part of our inner life.”― Eraldo Banovac
“When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” – Mitch Albom
“The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!” –Louise Hart
“I don’t know what’s more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you’re doing.” ― Jim Gaffigan
“Being a parent doesn’t give you an excuse for bad manners.” – Rosalind Wiseman
“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter
“When my father didn’t have my hand…he had my back.” – Linda Poindexter
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
“You must first teach a child he is loved. Only then is he ready to learn everything else.” — Amanda Morgan
“Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.” — Nicole Ari Parker
“The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately — they talk to the heart.” — Hain Ginott
“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“Motherhood [and Fatherhood] has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don’t think about yesterday, and they don’t think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.” — Jessalyn Gilsig
“I know my parents care and love me, but they never show it the way that they do for my brother.”― Tashie Bhuiyan
“No matter how old you are, there’s no cozier feeling than to have your mom take care of you.”― Brandi Glanville
“My biggest parenting conundrum: why is it so hard to put someone who is already sleepy to sleep.” –Chrissy Teigen
“Fathers provide not only support but also encouragement.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.” — Gary Smalley
“Parenthood…It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.” ― Peter Krause
“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.” ― Fredrik Backman
“Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.” — Jillian Michaels
“Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.” – Mariska Hargitay
“Too much love never spoils children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence.” — Anthony Withman
“Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.” –Abraham Lincoln
“If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.” — Jeffrey R. Holland
“Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.” –Richelle E. Goodrich
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.” — Abraham Lincoln
“We’re doing the best we can, so it would be really nice if moms supported each other instead of pointing out the flaws. We’re all trying to do the best we can.” — Jana Kramer
Children should not be burdened with making us happy, nor blamed for making us sad or angry. Children are not responsible for how we feel. We are. — Larissa Dann
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”- Honore de Balzac
“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.” – A.E. Coppard
“Parents, It’s about guiding the next generation and forgiving the last.” – Peter Krause
“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.” — James E. Faust
“You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.” — Polish Proverb
“I’m thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.” — Laurie Graham
“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.” – Robert Orben
“Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.” – Robbie Coltrane
“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm
“The daily choices we make as parents to filter what enters our children’s impressionable hearts and minds will go a long way in determining who our children become.” – Mark J. Musser
“Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.” – David O. McKay
“Honor your parents.” – Anonymous
“Becoming a mom to me means that you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” — Nia Vardalos
“What’s done to children, they will do to society.” — Karl Menninger
“There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.” — Anne Lamott
“Don’t anger your parents in order to please other people. Those other people did not spend their lives building yours.” – Anonymous
“Just because you’re a parent doesn’t mean your needs aren’t important.” — Hilary Duff
“The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they’re proud of.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.” — Lady Bird Johnson
“I feel like I was never this patient, but it’s made me a nicer person, and I apply it to all aspects of my life.” — Hilary Duff
“Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.” — Jodi Picoult
“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
“Being a parent is a weird juggling act – and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.” — Jamie Lee Curtis
“It is the responsibility of parents to love and care for their children.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
“Having an infant son alerts me to the fact that every man, at one point, has peed on his own face.” – Olivia Wilde
“Parents. They didn’t leave you when you were young. So don’t leave them when they are old.” – Anonymous
You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel worse. When children feel better they behave better. — Pam Lee
“Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.” — Sam Levenson
“You’re just like a human napkin for kids, like, they just wipe their face on you and stuff.” – Tina Fey
“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.” – Gloria Estefan
“Being a father is the single greatest feeling on Earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.” –Ryan Reynolds
“It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.” – Ama Ata Aidoo
“If you’ve not been loved as a child, you don’t know how to love a child.”― Jane Gardam
“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.” — J.K. Rowling
“We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.” – Tina Fey
“I have a newfound respect for my body, even with my extra jiggle and stretch marks.”—Sophie Mayanne
“A mother and daughter’s love is never separated.” – Viola Shipman
“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” ― Frank A. Clark
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Once you’re a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.” — Russell Crowe
“The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.” — Danny McBride
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”— Phyllis Diller
“The weird thing is that you’re just not a parent … and then you are. It takes your brain a couple hours to catch up to that.” — Seth Meyers
“To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn’t hurt.” — Olivia Newton-John
“It would be easy to be a parent if you said ‘yes’ all the time and gave them what they wanted, but you just can’t do that. There are certain things, of course, where you’re going to say ‘no’ and be tougher on.” — Chrissy Teigen
“It’s especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.” ― Sean Covey
“A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.” — John Andrew Holmes
“They’ve got great parents; I’m just trying to be the fun uncle.” – Sarah Silverman
“The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.” ― Eileen Kennedy-Moore
“Love as powerful as your mother for you leaves its mark to have been loved so deeply, will give us some protection forever.” – J.K. Rowling
“Being a parent, I’m acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.” — Maya Harris
“I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.” — Dave Barry
“There is no such thing as being the perfect parent. So just be a real one.” — Sue Atkins
“You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible — oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.”— Tina Fey
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” ― Barbara Johnson
“Whatever you do in this lifetime, strive to make your parents happy and proud”Charmaine J Forde
“The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.” – Gilbert Highet
“In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well.” – Paul Young
“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.” — John Steinbeck
“My parents have always encouraged me to follow my dreams and do what makes me happy.” – Manushi Chhillar
“Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.”— Irene Rosenfeld
“Respect your parents because they are the one who will never let you down at any cost…..” – Anisha Upadhyay
“I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.” – Brit Marling
“Parents don’t make mistakes because they don’t care, but because they care so deeply.” – T. Berry Brazelton
“Do your best for your parents. If you don’t, one day you will regret it.”― Debasish Mridha
“Parents are the most precious gift given by God. We should take care of it.” ― Ciril Cyriac
“The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.” — Janet Blaustone
“Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.” – Frank Pittman
“I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!” — Jeff Bridges
“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.” – George Santayana
“The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.” – Natalie Portman
“A father’s goodness is higher than the mountain, a mother’s goodness deeper than the sea.” – Japanese Proverb
“It’s not only children who grow, parents do too.” — Joyce Maynard
“You see much more of your children once they leave home.” — Lucille Ball
“Parents are like consumer brands in that, as kids, we remember only two or three key things about them, missing the nuance you only appreciate as you get older and realize people are complicated.”― Scott Galloway
“It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of the foods that my kid didn’t finish.” — Carrie Underwood
“I don’t think it matters how many parents you’ve got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel
“A mother’s love doesn’t make her son more dependent and timid; it actually makes his stronger and more independent.” – Cheri Fuller
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying. — Fran Lebowitz
“You learn so much about yourself from being a parent and you care more about the world you are raising your kids in.” — Kim Kardashian
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” — Barbara Kingsolver
“When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It’s an awakening, a revelation that you have.” – Philip Seymour Hoffman
“In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.”– Robert Brault
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” — Oscar Wilde
“I didn’t think I’d have a child before I got married, but hey, it turned out that way and I wouldn’t change a thing. I didn’t think I’d have dessert before breakfast this morning, but hey, it turned out that way and I wouldn’t change thing.” — Mindy Kaling
“We don’t always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can’t find a way to love us anyway.” ― J. Courtney Sullivan
“Parents with their words, attitudes, and actions possess the ability to bless or curse the identities of their children.” – Craig Hill
“Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”― Russell Baker
“Don’t use the sharpness of your tongue on the mother who taught you to speak.” – Ali Ibn Abi Talib
“We receive our inheritance the day we learn a skill from a parent. How we use that skill will determine how far we go!”― Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
“If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” — Bette Davis
“You learn so much about yourself from being a parent and you care more about the world you are raising your kids in.” — Kim Kardashian
“By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.” – Eileen Kennedy-Moore
“Parents are not perfect, nor are they saints. Dads and moms make mistakes all the time. How you handle these situations will be an important life lesson for your children.” – Bethany Bridges
“The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.” —Ewan McGregor
“Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn’t.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.” — Mell Lazarus
Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one. — Glennon Melton
“That’s the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don’t really care, or at least they don’t care enough to let it affect the outcome.”― Peter Monn
“Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.”― John Green
“Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.” — Michael Josephson
“Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
“If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what ‘good’ parenting means.” — Fred Rogers
“Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.”– Jodie Picoult
“The birth of a child is a sacred phenomenon.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
“The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.” – Francis Bacon
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” ― Barbara Johnson
“A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.” — Frank A. Clark
“The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.” — Author Unknown
“Parenting without a sense of humor is like being an accountant who sucks at math.” — Amber Dusick
“I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.” — Michelle Obama
“Only parents love you unconditionally. Everyone else carries a “Conditions Apply” tag. This is the ultimate truth of life.” – Prathamesh Medhekar
“To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.”― Marita Golden

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