Parenting quotes: Being a parent evokes the strongest of emotions and fundamentally changes who you are as a person. Sometimes a great quote sums it up best! Here are our favourite parenting quotes for this month.
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother can do for her children is to love their father,”
–Anonymous
“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”
–Bette Davis
“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
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
–Frederick Douglas
“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”
–Lady Bird Johnson
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory bank of our children.”
–Charles R. Swindoll
“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”
–Billy Graham
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
–Robert Fulghum
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
–Franklin P. Jones
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
–Jesse Jackson
“Hugs can do great amounts of good – especially for children.”
–Princess Diana
“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.”
–David Bly