Parents Sayings & Quotes
These parents sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?' - Joseph A. Schumpeter
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. - Hosea Ballou
A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. - Marcelene Cox
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. - Thomas Hardy
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. - Plato
The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. - Confucius
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. - Ama Ata Aidoo
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it. - Lyndon Baines Johnson
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. - John A. Locke
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. - Samuel Johnson
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. - Evelyn Waugh
My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. I cannot marry all of them, or bear them all as children, or care for them all as I would my parents in illness or old age. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh