Famous Quotes about Parents and Parenting (89 Quotations)

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own — this is happiness.

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

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

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word ''collectible'' as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.