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.
Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.Jessica Alba
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A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.Elizabeth Gaskell
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A father's goodness is higher than the mountain, a mother's goodness deeper than the sea.Japanese Proverb
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Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.James A. Brewer
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When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.Japanese Proverb
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Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery.Helen Hayes
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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.Clarence Budinton Kelland
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Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.Arnold Glasow
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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.Helen Hayes
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The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.Author Unknown
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.Barbara Walters
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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
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Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.Bill Cosby
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.Chinese Proverb
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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.Charles Wadsworth
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The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.John J. Plomp
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Parents know best how to push our buttons because they installed them.Author Unknown
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My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.Cathy Ladman
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.P. J. O'Rourke
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The joys of parent are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.Sir Francis Bacon
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The principal duty which a parent owes a child is to make him happy.Anthony Trollope
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To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.Latin Proverb
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Many a parent spanks his children for things his own parent should of spanked out of him.Don Marquis
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Every parent who does not teach his child a trade, it is as though he taught him to rob.The Talmud
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Oh what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.Ogden Nash
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What God is to the world, parents are to their children.Philo
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There is no school equal to a decent home and no teachers equal to honest virtuous parents.Gandhi
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If there is anything to reform in public morals, one must begin with domestic morals, and they depend entirely on the fathers and mothers.Rosseau
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The parent's life is the child's copy book.W.S. Partridge
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The virtue of parents is in itself a great legacy.Italian Proverb