Quotes About Parenting

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

Dad. Mum is confused by the pull tab on her Diet Coke, so I open it for her. She has never drunk a soda out of a can before.

Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ëCarry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,í to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

If you come across a birdís nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”

On the seventh day the child died. But Davidís servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”

For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

Listen, my son, to your fatherís instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.