Parents Quotes

There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

The secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret… Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not […]

I do not believe that children should have to pay for the shortcoming and inequities of the society into which they were born. I do not think that children should have to pay for the real or supposed sins of their parents. And I think it would be shortsighted of a society to produce, by […]

You will always be your child’s favorite toy.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. All women alike fight fiercely for a child.

Where yet was ever found a mother, Who’d give her booby for another?

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

Here all mankind is equal: rich and poor alike, they love their children.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. for they have their own thoughts. You […]