Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Parents

• There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Baby, Children, Wings

• There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Wings, Two

• Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Inspiring, Children

• Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Parent, Well Mannered

• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Children, Practice

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.435, Ravenio Books

• Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent."
  Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Love You, Thinking

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