Best Parent Child Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.”

“I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.”

Way Children Ends Dies Parent Hostility Plausible Parent Child Parent Child Relationship

Author:Ben Marcus

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”

“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”

“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.”

Knows Wells Children Enough Parent Practice Dog Fine Degrees Favors Excellent Scent Hunts Parent Child Barometer

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.”

Children Young Reading Literature Parent Fields Easier Driving Chiefs Merit Characteristics Providing Positively Indulgence Reformation Parent Child Children's Literature Harmlessness

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.”

Children Parent Blood Dangerous Endure Motherhood Humbling Irrevocable One Sided Parent Child

Author:Glenda Jackson

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.”

Children Age Young Force Parent Realizing Loses Natural Mercy Aging Heredity Parent Child

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.”

Children Parent Our Children Maturity Parent Child

Author:Merrit Malloy

“In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.”

Children Enough Found Felt Parent Study Enough Time Parent Child

Author:Ellen Galinsky

“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.”

Children Has Beens Facts Might Parent Sides Deals Generations Expected Manners Rising Impressed Rudeness Parent Child Bad Manners

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.”

Children Play Parent Roles Fundamentals Who You Are Perceive Tension Contradiction Angst Loathing Afghan Parent Child Parent Child Relationship

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.”

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Author:Sandra Scarr

“Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.”

Children Parent Doctrine Parent Child

Author:Mason Cooley

“The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.”

Needs Years Children Long Parent Understanding Support Struggle Five Friends Engaged Five Years Allies Five Year Olds Frantic Forecasts Parent Child

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“There are some things we really need to take care of: the children, and grandparents. Children, whether they are young or older, they are the strength that moves us forward. We place our hope in them.Grandparents are the living memory of the family. They passed on the faith, they transmitted the faith, to us.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.”

Thinking Children Hands Earth Parent Loss Grief Divine Color Flower Our Children Your Children Touched Shade Think Of You Blooming Withered Parent Child Loss Of A Parent

Author:Richard Hooker

“Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.”

Men Children Country Song Parent Goes On Grandmother Parent Child Granddaughter

Author:PJ Harvey

“Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.”

Children Shows Care Faces Parent Danger Evidence Pigs Solidarity Elephants Bonding Primates Parent Child

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child development would prefer an even later age. In a reasonably warm home, parent-child responses, the true ABC's of sound education, are likely to be a hundred times more frequent than the average teacher-child responses in a classroom.”

Children Home Age Parent Sound Teacher Development Ten Hundred Response Average Eight Warm Classroom Twelve Nests Psychiatrist Psychologist Child Development Parent Child Abc's

Book:Homestyle Teaching

Source: Homestyle Teaching

“Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.”

Knows Children States Form Nations Parent Natural Leader Roles Duty Habit Citizens Relation Fundamentals Who You Are Neighbor Arise Our Family Neighborhood Workplace Linked Parent Child

Author:Epictetus

“Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.”

Source: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“Children need models rather than critics.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection.”

Children Matter Parent Connections Zone Prioritize Parent Child

Author:Shefali Tsabary

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“It's what [Hillary Clinton] embodied and what the Clinton mystique was as it was passed down from parents to children and so forth. Because logically none of this makes any sense, as you are encountering. So you're trying to confront all these people with logic, and I would maintain to you that they don't have any where this is concerned.”

People Trying Children Parent Concerned Logic Clinton Mystique Parent Child

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

Source: At Home in the World: A Memoir

“If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”

“Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.”

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Author:Roger Moore

“Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.”

Humans Children Used Social Easy Parent Boys Gone Media Social Media Used To Be Thanks Girlfriend Human Relationships Sideways Landlord Parent Child

Author:Susan Orlean

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.”

Children Parent Perspective Parent Child Parent Child Relationship

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.”

Men Children Doe Ideas Parent Development Worship Educated Reverence Bent Abnormal Parent Child Normal And Abnormal

Book:My Path to Atheism

Source: My Path to Atheism

“Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.”

Children Parent Chance Relationship Parenting Second Chance Parent Child Given A Chance Great Parents Parent Child Relationship Given A Second Chance

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”

Source: Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh

“There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.”

Kind Children Parent Deals Break Unique Temporary Stressful Single Parent Parent Child Parent Child Relationship

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”

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Book:Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition

Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition

“The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

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Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

Source: Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness

“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.”

“And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.”

Knows Want Needs Children Whole Stories Faces Parent Answers Inspire Shame Our Children Hypocrisy Paradox Your Face Parenthood Exposed Being A Parent Parent Child

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

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