150 Parents Quotes That Will Make You Appreciate Them

Do you owe it all to your parents? Truth be said, that’s what parents do. They are there to support you and back you up in all your first steps from literally walking to starting your career. Mom is there to cheer you on, on your big game and also standing proud on graduation day. It’s dad who taught you how to swim and fix that garage door. Let’s not forget who picked you up when you fell off your first bike. The encouragement, dedication and motivation they provide is with you all your life and is what helps in overcoming all challenges that come your way.

It’s these family principles and values you articulate that reflect who you are. A parent’s love and affection is deeply encompassed within you. As you get older you see it all from a clearer and more understanding angle, and appreciate what they have accomplished in spite of their mistakes, which is also what many famous people have conveyed. Continue reading to find a spectacular variety of quotes that are inspirational, funny and heartening from famous authors, great athletes and celebrities expressing their personal perspective.

Table of Contents

1. Best Parents Quotes
2. New Parents Quotes
3. Funny Parenting Quotes
4. Parent’s Love Quotes
5. Single Parent Quotes

Best Parents Quotes

• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother. Abraham Lincoln
• Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be when you grow up. Jodi Picoult
• Parenthood…it’s about guiding the next generation and forgiving the last. Peter Krause
• So much is asked of parents, and so little is given. Virginia Satir
• We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. Doris Lessing
• Never complain about what your parents couldn’t give you. It was probably all they had. Aditya Bhavsar
• In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul. Lisa T. Shepherd
• No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. Miguel De Cervantes
• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.. Garrison Keillor

• There is no such thing as being the perfect parent. So just be a real one. Sue Atkins
• When you realize your parents are human, that’s when you lose your innocence. Lidia Longorio
• Parents don’t understand kids and kids don’t understand parents. Mark Hoppus
• If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. Bette Davis
• You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. Polish Proverb
• As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel. Kevin Heath
• Of course, everyone’s parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. Neil Gaiman
• Praise your children openly, reprehend them secretly. W. Cecil
• As parents we’re meant to help each other out and build each other up. Galit Breen
• Everything depends on upbringing. Leo Tolstoy
• As parents, we all want the best for our children. Doug Ducey

• Good parents hardly parent. They let their kids learn, fail, and grow without interference. Trevor Carss
• Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. Muriel Spark
• What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion. Jennifer Senior
• She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter. Erica Bauermeister
• Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers. Mahatma Gandhi
• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P. J. O’Rourke
• To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. Barbara Johnson
• First your parents, they gave you your life, but now and then they try to give you their life. Chuck Palahniuk
• I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life. Travis Scott
• The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! Louise Hart
• I think it’s probably a universal experience that all parents think they’re not hovering, but perhaps we all are. Nia Vardalos
• I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect. Barry Humphries
• The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock
• Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them. Roma Khetarpal
• There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children. Bill Clinton
• We all need a cheering committee and parents are a child’s most important fans! Vivian Kirkfield
• Never stop the vibe of parenthood. It just makes you see life in a more meaningful level. Karl Gornal
• If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture. Neil Postman
• While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt
• One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them. Timothy Carey
• Parents can cultivate the character of a child, not the competence of a child. Amit Kalantri
• Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry. Alvin Price
• The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children. Richard Linklater
• The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their own good. Sophie Kinsella
• We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners. Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
• We receive our inheritance the day we learn a skill from a parent. How we use that skill will determine how far we go! Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

New Parents Quotes

• Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. Paul Reiser
• What a difference it makes to come home to a child! Margaret Fuller
• Children make your lives a mess and set your priorities straight. Adrianne Simeone
• You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents. Dr. Linda Barboa
• Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day. Taylor Hanson
• You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today’s world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms. Neil A. Maxwell

• Having children truly ends adolescence. Ben Shapiro
• With toddlers around, times are always interesting. Beth Ann Fennelly
• A baby’s cry is precisely as serious as it sounds. Jean Liedloff
• I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. Gloria Swanson
• Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world. Lailah Gifty Akita
• As a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code. Bill Clegg
• Here’s a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it’s going to pay off later. Colson Whitehead
• I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. Mayim Bialik
• Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Claire Fontaine
• The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. Grantly Dick-Read
• The weird thing is that you’re just not a parent … and then you are. It takes your brain a couple hours to catch up to that. Seth Meyers
• The real menace about dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. Jean Kerr

Funny Parenting Quotes

• Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. P. J. O’Rourke
• A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. Raymond Duncan
• Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. Doris Day
• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. William Feather
• Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds? Rick Riordan
• I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. Robert Orben
• I’d rather be a ‘THINKER’ – Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement! Kaye D. Walters
• The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow
• I won’t do that when I’m a parent. I’ll make different mistakes, of course. Adrienne Stoltz
• A two-year-old is a kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it. Jerry Seinfeld
• I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I’ve done my job. Roseanne Barr
• When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. Rodney Dangerfield
• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Erma Bombeck
• When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. Nora Ephron
• Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. Phyllis Diller
• I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories. Kevin DeYoung
• You’re just like a human napkin for kids, like, they just wipe their face on you and stuff. Tina Fey
• That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored. Ivan Turgenev
• Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Tina Fey
• If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says keep away from children. Susan Savannah
• The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed. Unknown
• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash
• If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money. J.R. Rain
• Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee. David Frost
• Becoming a mom to me means that you have accepted that for the next years of your life, you will have a sticky purse. Nia Vardalos
• Insanity is hereditary – you get it from your kids. Sam Levenson
• Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. Phyllis Diller
• Being a father is the single greatest feeling on Earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course. Ryan Reynolds
• Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. Laurence J. Peter
• Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way. Tom Swyers
• Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. Robbie Coltrane
• We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. Phyllis Diller
• My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. Calvin Trillin
• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Adams
• Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too. Lionel Kauffman
• Having an infant son alerts me to the fact that every man, at one point, has peed on his own face. Olivia Wilde
• I used to wonder why I had hair on my legs, but now I know it’s for my toddler sons and daughters to pull themselves up off the ground with as I scream in pain. Jim Gaffigan
• On our 6 a.m. walk, my daughter asked where the moon goes each morning. I let her know it’s in heaven, visiting Daddy’s freedom. Ryan Reynolds
• Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best. Erma Bombeck
• The only things kids wear out faster than shoes are their parents. John J. Plomp
• What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. Rodney Dangerfield
• When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. Woody Allen
• You see much more of your children once they leave home. Lucille Ball

Parent’s Love Quotes

• A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided. Robert Brault
• Children must never work for our love, they must rest in it. Gordon Neufeld
• Nobody on earth can ever love you more than your parents. Biswonath Das
• My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love. Yvonne Pierre
• Parent greatest gift to their children is their bond of love. Lailah Gifty Akita
• There are really places in your heart that you don’t know exist until you love a child. Anne Lamott
• Parental love is the only love that is truly selfless, unconditional and forgiving. Dr T.P.Chia
• Only parents love you unconditionally. Everyone else carries a “Conditions Apply” tag. This is the ultimate truth of life. Prathamesh Medhekar
• Parents don’t make mistakes because they don’t care, but because they care so deeply. T. Berry Brazelton
• To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself. Chinese Proverb
• Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it. Ann Brashares
• They’re your parents. They’re meant to love you because. Never in spite. Patrick Ness
• A parent’s love is made of deep devotion, sacrifice, and pain; It is endless and unselfish, and enduring come what may. Ruth Auker
• Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. Elizabeth Stone
• By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments. Eileen Kennedy-Moore
• Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you’re telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much. Bill Cosby
• I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline. Ellen J. Barrier
• Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time. Kevin Heath
• Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents. Abraham Lincoln
• Most important jobs of a parent: unconditional love, comfort and protection, and a solid platform and values for future success. M. James Airey
• There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry. Joni Eareckson Tada
• You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. Barbara Bush
• Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior. Amy Vanderbilt
• Too much love never spoils children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence. Anthony Withman
• What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. Nicholas Sparks
• It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. Roald Dahl
• You love your child for who the child is, not as an extension of your identity or as an example of your good parenting or even as a companion. Robert Fritz

Single Parent Quotes

• Being a single parent is not a life full of struggles, but a journey for the strong. Meg Lowrey
• I’m a single parent. What’s your superpower? Unknown
• I can’t tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it solo. Jennie Finch
• I know it’s hard being a single parent, but I’d rather do it by myself than with someone who doesn’t want to. Unknown
• You are the everything parent. You get all the tears, the joy, the tantrums, the hugs, the disappointments. Unknown
• I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working. Alison Moyet
• I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere. Jennifer Ashton
• Single parenthood is hard, but it’s simple too. You just do everything yourself. Amy Dickinson

• With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently. Rosemarie DeWitt
• The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth. Daniel Pearce
• I’m always working, and I’m a single parent, so I don’t think I have time for stuff most normal people do. Charlie Murphy
• It’s difficult. I’m a single parent now, and I’m having such a battle to see my kids on a daily basis. It’s so hard. Craig Bellamy
• It’s really hard just making dinner as a single parent, but I’m figuring it out. I just have to be more focused and efficient with my little scraps of time that I do have. Phil Elverum
• My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement. Ashley Jensen

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