quotations about parents
The hand of our parents traces on our feeble hearts those first characters to which example and time give firmness, and which perhaps God alone can efface.
VOLTAIRE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Parenting is the science of art of upbringing children.
SIMON SOLOVEYCHIK
Parenting for Everyone
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERS
How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything
If parents are civil and kind to one another, if children never hear from them profane or coarse language, they will as naturally grow up well-behaved as that candle took the form of the mold it was run in.
CATHARINE M. SEDGWICK
attributed, Day's Collacon
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes, how many anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child.
SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH
Fireside Education
A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
North and South
I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.
TIGER WOODS
interview, March 17, 2003