Quotes about parenting

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Nikola Tesla

Character is just another term for “good person.” A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.

Michael Josephson

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, ‘Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?’ And it’s like, yeah, honey, they do.

Michelle Obama

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

If you know the mother’s genome and the father’s genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

Leroy Hood

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

John Steinbeck

I’ve inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father’s hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother’s surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.

Woody Allen

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

Sylvester Stallone

Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.

Dan Millman