- As long as you have the blessing of your parents it does not matter even if you live in the mountains. ~ Greek proverb
- Bad children? Guilty parents! ~ Myanmar Proverb
- Children are buttonholes that hold their parents together. ~ Arabian Proverb
- Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Children grow up, with or without parents. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Children learn to smile from their parents. ~ Shinichi Suzuki
- Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ~ Michael Levine
- If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. ~ Bette Davis
- If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~ Abigail Van Buren
- In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent. ~ Don Marquis
- Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes. ~ Michael Jordan
- Our parents taught us to speak and the world taught us to be silent. ~ Czech Proverb
- Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of. ~ Bruce Lansky
- Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it. ~ Haim Ginott
- Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. ~ Orlando A. Battista
- The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself. ~ A. P. Gouthey
- The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ~ Benjamin Spock
- The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents. ~ Shinichi Suzuki
- The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~ Clarence Darrow
- The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel. ~ Chinese Proverb
- The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~ Lane Olinghouse
- The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. ~ Mel Lazarus
- The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed. ~ Author Unknown
- The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. ~ Joyce Maynard
- There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. ~ Red Auerbach
- To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb
- We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- What children hear their parents say by the fireside, they repeat in the highway. ~ Spanish Proverb
- When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents. ~ Japanese Proverb
