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Inspirational Quotations on Parenting and Children
In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born. Konstantin Stanislavsky God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections. Mary Howitt
What gift has Providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? Cicero
Who is not attracted by bright and
pleasant children, to Epictetus
The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun. Jean Paul Richter
The youth gets together the materials for a bridge to the moon, and at length the middle-aged man decides to make a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. W. R. Inge, "The Observer," 7/21/29
We live in a world in which we need to
share responsibility. It's easy to say 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world,
not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those
people my heroes.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. Henry Ward Beecher
The traditional American Indian paradigm assumes that children are inherently sacred, not bad or relatively incompetent. Don Trent Jacobs
I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb. The character Samuel Hamilton in John Steinbeck's East of Eden
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . Thomas Bray
A marriage without children is the world without the sun. Augustine quoted in Martin Luther, Table Talk
The first time I hear "The Little Drummer Boy" each December, especially if it's sung by kids, the chills run up and down me as the truth of it slams home again: "I played my best for him, pah rum puh pum pum..." Here's some little kid, standing right next to the cradle of a newborn baby, banging away on a
drum. David James Duncan
The contents of his [Sitting Bull's] pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor. Annie Oakley in Ryley Cooper's Annie Oakley: Woman at Arms [1927], Chapter Seven
Affection could no more spoil a child, than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline. L. Ron Hubbard
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