Parenting

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never know where his influence stops.”

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

“It is not enough to know how to live; it is necessary to practise it.”

“The great joy of childhood is that everything is new.”

“A child is not a project; a child is a person you get to keep company with.”

“Parenting is a thousand quiet things done for a child you will never meet.”

“Let the mountains be your cares and the world your garden.”

“A good parent is the one whose children can be themselves.”

“The best thing a father can do for his children is to give them a mother who is happy.”

“You have become a father for the first time when you understand what your father understood.”

“Children learn what they live by. If children live with fear, they learn to be fearful.”

“The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“A mother does not become a mother by giving birth; she becomes a mother by raising a child.”

“To be a grandparent is to be a parent a second time, with none of the responsibility.”

“A child is a hostage to his parents' ambitions.”

“A father is the man who knows how to do it and lets you do it anyway.”

“Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are sons born in youth.”

“What we give children is not what they are but what they become.”

“He who has children has cares; he who has riches has worries.”