My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
8 views from Quentin Crisp
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
4 views from Henry Reed
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
33 more wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
4 quotes from Coretta Scott King
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
53 more thoughts from Honore de Balzac
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
26 quotes from Sigmund Freud
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
46 more views from John F. Kennedy
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
6 quotes from Benjamin Spock
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
6 quotes from Benjamin Spock
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
58 sayings from Henry Ward Beecher
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
2 wisdom & wit from Virginia Satir
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
19 wisdom & wit from Carl Jung
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
115 other wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
14 quotes from Ogden Nash
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes