Parenting Quote Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes our work as caregivers is not for the faint of heart. But, you will never know what you are made of until you step into the fire. Step bravely! — Deborah A. Beasley

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. — Hugh Sidey

I love playing confused, broken characters. — Nina Dobrev

To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important. — Rafe Esquith

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things. — Sasha Roiz

KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don't care if you're Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It's that SIMPLE. — Carew Papritz

Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn't work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies. — Margaret Aranda

Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children. — Jason E. Royle

You don't need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the true difference in the long run. — Miya Yamanouchi

Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I turned forty this year. Forty! Which is so weird because I've always been young. I've been young my whole life, as a matter of fact. No matter how I dissect this, I've aged out of the "young" category and graduated to the "middle" group. My brain feels confused about this because I am so juvenile. I make up my own words to hip-hop songs and quote Paul Rudd as a parenting strategy. Surely I am a preteen. — Jen Hatmaker

This girl who equally drove me crazy and made me care about her more than I should. She was the only one who understood. The only one who could help make what I was more bearable, even if she occasionally tortured me in the process. — Stacey Kade

That's when I saw - cleary saw - that there was more than one mountain in my life. Some could be seen and some couldn't be, but just the same, they were all out there. All out there waiting for me. — Bette Greene

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties. — James Monroe

When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives. — Carew Papritz

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile. — Ana Monnar

Live each day as if it could be the last day that you spend with your husband or wife. — Lindsey Rietzsch

Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have. — Michael R. French

Claire slid one shoe on. Slid one shoe on. Slid one shoe on. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left. — Harriet Morgan