Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.Rabindranath Tagore
Parenting Quotes
These 24 quotes on parenting come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.Kahlil Gibran
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.Mencius
I would like to make a film to tell children: it's good to be alive.Hayao Miyazaki
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.Nelson Mandela
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.Frederick Douglass
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Kahlil Gibran
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.Sitting Bull
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.Gabriela Mistral
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
To be parent and child means only this: in this life, you watch their back recede further and further away.Lung Ying-tai
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.Cicero
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.Napoleon Hill
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a persons character lies in their own hands.Anne Frank
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.Pablo Picasso
The Child is father of the Man.William Wordsworth
You too, my child?Julius Caesar
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains…Marie Antoinette
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.Rabindranath Tagore
Success is the child of audacity.Benjamin Disraeli
The most sophisticated people I know – inside they are all children.Jim Henson
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.Pablo Picasso