1. “We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.” -Henry Ward Beecher
2. “Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.” -Plato
3. “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” -Mitch Albom
4. “A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.” -Robert Brault
5. “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.” -J.K. Rowling
6. “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” -O. A. Battista
7. “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” -Oscar Wilde
8. “There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” -SUE ATKINS
9. “First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.” -Chuck Palahniuk
10. “There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” -Sophie Kinsella
11. “Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.” -Peter Ustinov
12. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.” -Abraham Lincoln
13. “To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.” -Chinese Proverb
14. “Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.” -Jodi Picoult
15. “Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” -Matthew Jacobson
16. “A good father is a source of inspiration and self-restraint. A good mother is the root of kindness and humbleness.” -Dr T.P.Chia
17. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” -Maya Angelou
18. “Parenthood…It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.” -Peter Krause
19. “My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.” -Kobe Bryant
20. “So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.” -Virginia Satir
21. “Parenting is a life time job and does not stop when a child grows up.” -Jake Slope
22. “Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.” -Chuck Palahniuk
23. “The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.” -Ewan McGregor
24. “Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they’d be different” -Tana French
25. “Step parents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather augment a child’s life experience.” -Azriel Johnson
26. “I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.” -Jim Carrey
27. “The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.” -Noah Webster
28. “No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.” -Brad Meltzer
29. “A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” -Billy Graham
30. “My biggest parenting conundrum: why is it so hard to put someone who is already sleepy to sleep.” -Chrissy Teigen
31. “You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.” -Alice Munro
32. “That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.” -Ivan Turgenev
33. “The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their own good.” -Sophie Kinsella
34. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” -Anne Frank
35. “It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.” -Ama Ata Aidoo
36. “Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations.” -Aditia Rinaldi
37. “We don’t always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can’t find a way to love us anyway.” -J. Courtney Sullivan
38. “In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.” -Robert Brault
39. “They’ve got great parents; I’m just trying to be the fun uncle.” -Sarah Silverman
40. “When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn’t go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.” -Jude Watson
41. “Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?” -Rick Riordan
42. “Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they’d consider wrong. Or at least risky.” -Rachel Caine
43. “The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!” -Louise Hart
44. “They’re your parents. They’re meant to love you because. Never in spite.” -Patrick Ness
45. “There is nothing worse than a thirteen-year-old boy. You’re embarrassed by your parents, and you’re trying to find your independence because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.” -Ben Affleck
46. “Any parents are as ordinary human beings as others, making them angels or even more is up to their next generation.” -Sandeep Sahajpal
47. “Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.” -Randa Abdel-Fattah
48. “Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles.” -Mary Lydon Simonsen
49. “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.” -Ann Brashares
50. “It’s especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.” -Sean Covey
51. “My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.” -Benedict Cumberbatch
52. “My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.” -Mindy Kaling
53. “Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.” -Abraham Lincoln
54. “The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” -Frank A. Clark
55. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” -Jewish Proverb
56. “Being a father is the single greatest feeling on Earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.” -Ryan Reynolds
57. “One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.” -Jim DeMint
58. “My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.” -Michael Jordan
59. “Good parents hardly parent. They let their kids learn, fail and grow without interference.” -Trevor Carss
60. “If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you’re proud of them, celebrate.” -Dennis Prager
61. “Parents are living gods. They do everything to make their children happy and expect nothing in return.” -Saravana Kumar Murugan
62. “Do your best for your parents. If you don’t, one day you will regret it.” -Debasish Mridha
63. “My parents didn’t raise me to order something expensive when someone else is paying.” -Nitya Prakash
64. “Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.” -Anais Nin
65. “The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.” -Stewart Stafford
66. “My parents loved us but I wasn’t always sure they liked us.” -Tahereh Maf
67. “She was our mother and belonged to us. She was never mentioned to anyone because we simply didn’t have enough of her to share.” -Maya Angelou
68. “Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.” -Richelle E. Goodrich
69. “My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.” -Ralph Webster
70. “If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove.” -Ron Baratono