2,497 Quotes About Parenting

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

Everything we say or don't say makes an imprint on our child's heart.

I am a mother. I see clearly that while I've been teaching them, they have been my reason to learn.

Fond mother, you that will never correct a child, hear the charge, and let it thrill through your heart, exciting emotions of horror, you are a hater of your child; your foolish love is infanticide; your cruel embraces are hugging your child to death. In not correcting him, you are committing sin of the heaviest kind, and your own wickedness, in not correcting him, will at last punish yourself.

Ah, cruel parents indeed, who neglect the religious education of their children; more cruel in some respects than Herod; he slew the bodies of children, these murder souls; he murdered the children of others, these murder their own; he employed the agency of his servants, these do the work of slaughter themselves.

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.