Wonderful Parents Quotes

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

I am a person who grew up with two wonderful parents and a wonderful family and a person who has done well in life.

I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it.

I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up...But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Children need models rather than critics.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

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.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.