Quotes on parents
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Stone, Elizabeth
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
Homer
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Housman, Lawrence
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying.(Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.
O'Rourke, P.J.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Swindoll, Charles R.
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
Cosby, Billy
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
McLaughlin, Mignon
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
McLaughlin, Mignon
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
Lazarus, Mell
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
Tammeus, William D.
Smack your child every day. If you don't know why, he does.
Adams, Joey
My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.
Brown, Karen
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.
Duncan, Raymond
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Ginott, Haim
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Carter, Hodding
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Allen, Woody
Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.
Cox, Marcelene
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Unknown, Author
I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Allen, Woody
I mean, listen, Mom and Dad love children in the Muslim world just like we do in America, and they've got to understand that - that there are some common beliefs that we share that will make - and the Peace Corps is a good way to spread that message.
Bush, George W.
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Bombeck, Erma
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
Davis, Bette
There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.
Alauda, Astrid
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
Brown, H. Jackson
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Author, Unknown