We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
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