Quotes About Parents

Our selection of true, funny, important, touching quotes about parents!

We love quotes! And we found quotes about parents that we hope you’ll enjoy reading and sharing. They are great reminders of what parenting’s all about, how challenging and rewarding our parenting journey can be. We’re sure you’ll find yourself nodding while reading some of these quotes about parents! :)

“Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.”
- Alvin Price

“Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.”
- James A. Brewer

“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

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”
- Mignon McLaughlin

“The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones – which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.”
- Sydney J. Harris

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“The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.”
- Charles DeLint

“There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.”
- Robert Brault

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
- Oscar Wilde

“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.”
- Haim Ginott

“Parents are children’s first and most influential teachers. By reading to children or having them read to us, by making sure homework is done, by monitoring television use, by knowing how children spend their time, parents can have a powerfully positive effect on their children’s learning.”
- U.S. Secretary of Education

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