Quotes About Parents – Page 4

“Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.”
- Christy Turlington

 
“The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard.”
- John Lennon

“Train the parent and spare the child.”
- Duane Alan Hahn

“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.”
- Joyce Maynard

“Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.”
- Shakespeare

“The Hebrew word for parents is horim, and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher. The parent is, and remains, the first and most important teacher that the child will have.”
- Rabbi Kassel Abelson

“The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.  The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.”
- Frank Pittman

“Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.”
- Arnold Glasow

“Parents: People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and the rest of the time when they will turn in.”
- Eleanor Graham Vance

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