Parent's Day Quotes

• "Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight." - Barbara Schapiro
• "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." - Brian Tracy
• "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
• "To understand your Parent's love you must raise children yourself." - Chinese Proverb
• "Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth."  - Theodore Reik
• "Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them." - P. J. O'Rourke
• "If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people." - Thich Nhat Hanh
• "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
• "To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." - Pope John Paul II
• "The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them" - Arnold Bennettt
• "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
• "Becoming a new parent is a learning experience, you can read all the books, listen to all the advice, but you will find you will grow with your children. They will teach you things you could never read in a book." - C Lynch
• "You will always be your child's favorite toy" - Vicki Lansky
• "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
• "When you teach your son, you teach your son's son." - The Talmud
• "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
• "By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father." - General Douglas MacArthur
• "One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad." - Jim DeMint
• "Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." - Michael Levine