Inspirational Parental Quotes & Sayings

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it. — Iris Apfel

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed. — James E. Faust

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches. — Pete Sampras

Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE. — Heather Schuck

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon. It is astonishing how often such mutuality had been realized - how frequently parents who had supposed that they couldn't care for an exceptional child discover that they can. The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. There is more imagination in the world than one might think. — Andrew Solomon

The most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. — David Foster Wallace