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Quotes About Nurturing

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
~ Louise Hart
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
~ Polly Berrien Berends
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world
~ Dorothy Nolte
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
~ Marianne Williamson
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
~ Margaret Fuller
Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time
~ Kevin Heath
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
~ Benjamin Carson
Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
~ L. Tom Perry
Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.
~ Jean Ashworth Bartle
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.
~ Michael Jackson
A good parent gives their child roots and wings.
~ Jonas Salk
Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.
~ Dan Savage
I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.
~ Jeremy Coon
I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.
~ Timothy Carey
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
~ Stephen Covey
Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.
~ Ray Lewis
Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
~ Stephen Covey
Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.
~ Stephen King
Parenting needs to come to the forefront.
~ Bill Cosby
Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.
~ Tim Kimmel