Quotes of Parents' Day

Parents' Day Quotes

"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other"
- Francis Bacon

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
- Charles Wadsworth

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"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

"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."
- Michael Levine

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."
- Leo F. Buscaglia

"Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.""
- Amy Vanderbilt

"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."
- Henry Ward Beecher

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
- Anne Frank

"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize theirteachers."
- Socrates

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
- Elizabeth Stone

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."
- Henry Ward Beecher

"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."
- Robert MacNeil

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
- Peter Ustinov

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for."
- Ogden Nash