PA R E N T I NG Q U O T E S

Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry,

the philosophy which does not laugh
and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran

There are many ways to measure success;

not the least of which is the way your child describes you
when talking to a friend.
Anonymous

The greatest thing a father than do for his children is to love their mother.
Josh McDowell

We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children

that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Themistocles

The measure of a mans success in life is not the money hes made.
Its the kind of family he has raised.
In that Ive been mighty lucky.
Joseph P. Kennedy

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out,

but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
George Bernard Shaw
 In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances,
and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again:
and in him, too, once more, and of each of us,
our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness,
of the horror of terror, and of God.
James Agee

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve.

Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince,
a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
R.D. Laing

Making the decision to have a child its momentous.

It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

-William Shakespeare

Dont limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

-Rabbinical Saying

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

-Peter Ustinov

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
-Robert Brault