Best Parents Quotes

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  The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  249 Copy quote

• Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

  Thomas Bray

  Appreciation, Children, Parenting

  60 Copy quote

• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

  C. Everett Koop

  Love, Teacher, Children

  94 Copy quote

• The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Dad, Parenting

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Good Night, Baby

  "Fictional character: Jennifer Jareau". "Criminal Minds" ("Boxed In", Season 10, Episode 5), October 29, 2014.

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• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

  David Bly

  Family, Inspiring, Success

  99 Copy quote

• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

  77 Copy quote

• A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

  121 Copy quote

• The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

  Frank A. Clark

  Children, Parenting, Important

  68 Copy quote

• 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

  31 Copy quote

• At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

  Jane D. Hull

  Positive, Success, Children

  56 Copy quote

• Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Life, Fathers Day, Children

  87 Copy quote

• The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mother, Baby, Children

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  Gaspard Mermillod

  Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

  38 Copy quote

• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

  P. D. James

  Children, Parenting, Happy Kid

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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  If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Motivational, Family

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Family, Education, Children

  16 Copy quote

• If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Life, Children, Learning

  54 Copy quote

• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

  102 Copy quote

• If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Acceptance, Parenting

  10 Copy quote