Quotes for Parents

“A father’s words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house.”—Paul Lewis

“Happy is the child who happens in upon his parent from time to time

to see him on his knees,

 ... or going aside regularly, to keep times with the Lord.” 

—Larry Christenson

A young successful attorney said:  ‘”The greatest gift I ever received was a gift I got one Christmas when my dad gave me a small box.  Inside was a note saying, ‘Son, this year I will give you 365 hours, an hour every day after dinner.’  My dad not only kept his promise, he said, but every year he renewed it and it’s the greatest gift I ever had in my life.  I am the result of his time.”

“Train your child in the way you

know you should have gone yourself.” 

—C.H. Spurgeon

“Perhaps once in a hundred years a person

may be ruined by excessive praise, but surely once

every minute someone dies inside for a lack of it.”

 —Cecil G. Osborne

“The best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.”  —Sydney Harris

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge,

fitter to bruise than polish.”  — Anne Bradstreet

“A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding

done during the growing season.”  — Author Unknown

“Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wish we had.”  —Nancy Samalin

“If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does,

it must be by what he gives.”  —Robert South

“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”  —Margaret Fuller

"Don't worry that children never listen to you. 

Worry that they are watching you."  --R. Fulghum.