Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships...

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can’t find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Honestly, I don’t know if I’d want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You’re molding hundreds of minds every year.

Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I’ve known that since the very first time.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

If you are a good parent, please continue to be a good one. But if you are bad parent, today is a great new beginning for you to start a great new chapter of parenthood.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

No parent should have to bury a child … No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to bury sons. It is not in the natural order of things.I buried my...

I don’t want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

I’m still my parent’s child, I’m still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have a small rude incontinent person follow me around screaming and making me buy them stuff...