These parenting quotes is a best collection for parents as well as children to understand the importance of parenting. Famous authors have their say about parenting. These positive quotes gives clear understanding about parenthood. It tells us about what it means being parents, father and mother.

Parenting Quotes

1. Kids spell love T-I-M-E. – John Crudele

2. Everything depends on upbringing. – Leo Tolstoy

3. Education, like neurosis, begins at home. – Milton Sapirstein

4. Parenting is an impossible job at any age. – Harrison Ford

5. Simply having children does not make mothers. – John A. Shedd

6. You will always be your child’s favorite toy. – Vicki Lansky

7. Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.. – John Steinbeck

8. Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. – Robert Burton

9. But where in the world did the children vanish? – Phyllis McGinley

10. What’s done to children, they will do to society. – Karl Menninger

11. Children have more need of models than of critics. – Carolyn Coats

12. When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son. – The Talmud

13. A mother understands what a child does not say. – Jewish Proverb

14. Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of. – Bruce Lansky

15. Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people. – M*A*S*H

16. What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give. – P.D. James

17. Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. – Robert A. Heinlein

18. Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly. – W. Cecil

19. Your children need your presence more than your presents. – Jesse Jackson

20. You see much more of your children once they leave home. – Lucille Ball

21. Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. – Lady Bird Johnson

22. A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided. – Robert Brault

23. Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children. – Sam Levenson

24. Your children need your presence more than your presents. – Jesse Jackson

25. Smack your child every day. If you don’t know why – he does. – Joey Adams

26. Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying. – Fran Lebowitz

27. The best way to make children good is to make them happy. – Oscar Wilde

28. The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. – John J. Plomp

29. The unconditional love for your child, it’s truly amazing. – Jourdan Dunn

30. Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children. – Princess Diana

31. You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. – Polish Proverb

32. There are no illegitimate children – only illegitimate parents. – Leon R. Yankwich

33. God could not be everywhere, and therefore he created mothers. – Jewish proverb

34. Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. – Alvin Toffler

35. A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it. – Frank A. Clark

36. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglas

37. It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. – Homer

38. Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. – Carl Jung

39. To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself. – Chinese Proverb

40. A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. – Judith Martin

41. Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet. – Bill Cosby

42. Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

43. Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. – Mignon McLaughlin

44. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. – Chinese Proverb

45. Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. – Red Buttons

46. The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. – Benjamin Spock

47. It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life. – Nicholas Sparks

48. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. – Henry Ward Beecher

49. Parents know best how to push our buttons because they installed them. – Anonymous

50. The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. – Benjamin Spock

51. Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. – P.J. O’Rourke

52. Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first. – Mignon McLaughlin

53. Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother’s glance. – Robert Brault

54. A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it. – Frank A. Clark

55. There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes . – Dr. Who

56. If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. – Bette Davis

57. The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. – Charles DeLint

58. The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. – Mell Lazarus

59. Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. – Martin Mull

60. Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be . – David Bly

61. A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. – Raymond Duncan

62. My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. – Quentin Crisp

63. (24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that’s the only shift they offer. – Jodi Picoult

64. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. – Bette Davis

65. Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. – Laura Schlessinger

66. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. – Charles R. Swindoll

67. As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it. – Buddy Hackett

68. The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. – Mignon McLaughlin

69. Parenthood…It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last. – Peter Krause

70. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory bank of our children. – Charles R. Swindoll

71. My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. – Gena Lee Nolin

72. My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. – Clarence Budinton Kelland

73. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. – Roger Lewin

74. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. – William Feather

75. Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. – Marilyn Penland

76. Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. – Marcelene Cox

77. To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today. – Barbara Johnson

78. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. – Plato

79. First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet. – Prochnow

80. The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. – Robert Brault

81. In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time. – Anonymous

82. Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child. – Gail Sheehy

83. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. – Franklin P. Jones

84. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. – Josh Billings

85. Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too. – Lionel Kauffman

86. The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. – Edward

87. Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. – Mignon McLaughlin

88. Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. – Doug Larson

89. The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. – Bill Cosby

90. Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. – Robert Fulghum

91. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. – Barbara Kingsolver

92. Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for. – Ogden Nash

93. It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it. – Robert Brault

94. When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. – Anonymous

95. Parenting is a stage of life’s journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. – Robert Brault

96. If your parents didn’t have any children, there’s a good chance that you won’t have any. – Clarence Day

97. The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult. – Ewan McGregor

98. Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. – Robert Fulghum

99. We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. – Roy L. Smith

100. Love your children but don’t pamper too much that they become weak. Make them strong. Make them self-dependent. – Anonymous