Parenting Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old parenting quotes, parenting sayings, and parenting proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. Robert Brault
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. Robert Brault
A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided. Robert Brault
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children Elaine Heffner
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children. John Steinbeck
My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. Gena Lee Nolin
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. Benjamin Spock
It is time for parents to teach young people that in diversity there is beauty & there is strength Maya Angelou
We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. Phyllis Diller
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. Lane Olinghouse
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. Bill Cosby
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. Raymond Duncan
Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. Marcelene Cox
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. Ogden Nash
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. Bette Davis
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Haim Ginott
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. Bill Cosby
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman, he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold
The child had every toy his father wanted. Robert C. Whitten
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. Jim Bishop
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. Barbara Kingsolver
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers. Judith Martin
Food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. Katharine Whitehorn
Two important things to teach your child: to do and to do without. Marcelene Cox
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed Maria Montessori
It is the responsibility of every adult to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone. Marian Wright Edelman
Like all parents. my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath, and hope we've set aside enough money to pay for our kids' therapy. Michelle Pfeiffer
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. Nadia Boulanger