Parents Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old parents quotes, parents sayings, and parents proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. Mitch Albom
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Henry Ward Beecher
I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't. Mitch Albom
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Haim Ginott
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. Orlando A. Battista
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 drain it dry Alvin Price
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
The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard. John Lennon
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other. Francis Bacon
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. Ezra Taft Benson
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
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
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
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. Mignon McLaughlin
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. Jane D. Hull
There are no illegitimate children only illegitimate parents. Leon R. Yankwich
Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. Peter Ustinov
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. George Santayana
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness. Oscar Wilde
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. Elbert Hubbard
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. Bette Davis
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. Chuck Palahniuk
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy C. Fisher
The best that a parent can be... A demonstrator... A consistant, constant demonstrator of being in your own vortex. Abraham-Hicks
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories. Sydney J. Harris
The child supplies the power, but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock
Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach. Anthony Douglas Williams
As a parent, you will often serve as an inadvertent example to your child. A child will model himself after you in many areas: how you deal with frustration, settle disagreements and cope with not being able to have the things that you want, to name just three. Lawrence Balter
When things turn out pretty much as expected, parents give little thought to how much they have influenced the outcome. When things don't turn out as expected, parents give a great deal of thought to the role they play. Arlene Harder