Mom And Dad Sayings and Quotes

Who’s more reliable than mom and dad? For many of us, no one. From the time we enter this world our parents are a guiding force, helping to navigate the pitfalls of life and often bailing us out when needed. Check out our collection of wise, inspirational, and humorous mom and dad quotes below because no one has your back like your parents.

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad. Kevin Eubanks
My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. P. J. Harvey
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. Louis de Bernieres
Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do. James Levine
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. Benjamin Spock
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. Viktor Yushchenko
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education. Jeb Bush
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. Jane D. Hull
I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. Greg Norman
Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children. Shiv Khera
Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions. Bryan Stevenson
Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life. Hillary Clinton
All parents experience the same problems. Bill Cosby
Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it. Ihara Saikaku
Mothers are not simply models of femininity to their daughters but also examples of how a woman reacts to a man. Daughters learn about fathers, and men, not only by being with Dad but also by observing their parents' marital relationship--or its unraveling. Victoria Secunda
The stereotypical five o'clock dad belongs in a diorama with his 'Ask your mother' and his 'Don't be a cry baby.' The father who believes hugs and kisses are sex-blind and a dirty diaper requires a change, not a woman, is infinitely preferable. Anna Quindlen
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular...The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. Robert Frost
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Oscar Wilde
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. Gloria Steinem
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die. Philip Roth
Rich I am not, but the little I have I think it my duty to share with my poor mother and father. Haym Salomon
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh
I grew up to have my father's looks--my father's speech patterns--my father's posture--my father's walk--my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father. Jules Feiffer
My wife just let me know I'm about to become a father for the first time. The bad news is we already have two kids. Brian Kiley
I was raised by my mother. My father died when I was eight years old...at least, that's was he told us in the letter. Drew Carey
Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother, whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold? Elizabeth Jennings
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
Children desperately need to know and to hear in ways they understand and remember that they're loved and valued by mom and dad. Gary Smalley
There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way. Dave Willis
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