Top 35 Parenting Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody’s got to be crazy about that kid. That’s number one. First, last and always.”

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

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2. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.”

— Robert Munsch

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3. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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4. “When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.”

— Toni Morrison

Also featured in: Motherhood Quotes

5. “The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.”

— Barbara Bush

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6. “The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

— Bruce D. Perry

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7. “A child needs freedom within limits.”

— Maria Montessori

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8. “A Mother’s love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away.”

— Helen Steiner Rice

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9. “If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.”

— Alfie Kohn

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10. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

— Robert Fulghum

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11. “The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.”

— Bessel van der Kolk

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12. “The question isn’t so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Family Quotes, Growing Up Quotes, Quotes About Growing Up

13. “The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.”

— Zig Ziglar

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14. “Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.”

— Andy Stanley

Also featured in: Legacy Quotes, Family Quotes, Quotes About Kids

15. “There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”

— Dave Willis

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16. “Treat a child as though he already is the person he’s capable of becoming.”

— Haim G. Ginott

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17. “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.”

— Fred Rogers

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18. “Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.”

— Magda Gerber

Also featured in: Quotes About Children, Growing Up Quotes, Quotes About Childhood, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

19. “When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not join their chaos.”

— L.R. Knost

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Quotes About Childhood

20. “The child should live in an environment of beauty.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Quotes About Children

21. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”

— Fred Rogers

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22. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

— Agatha Christie

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Family Quotes, Motherhood Quotes, Mother's Day Quotes

23. “Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.”

— Ellen G. White

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24. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

— Khalil Gibran

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25. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

— Theodore Hesburgh

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26. “It is a wise father who knows his own child.”

— William Shakespeare

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27. “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.”

— Antoine François Prévost

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28. “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

— George Herbert

Also featured in: Father's Day Quotes

29. “Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”

— Daniel J. Siegel

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30. “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Also featured in: Motherhood Quotes, Mother's Day Quotes

31. “It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

— Friedrich Schiller

Also featured in: Father's Day Quotes

32. “A father is someone who is proud to see you get your first car, but secretly wishes it had no keys.”

— Linda Poindexter

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33. “I love my son and am proud of my son.”

— Robert H. Schuller

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34. “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”

— William Ross Wallace

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35. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

— Jim Valvano

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