Looking for heart touching emotional quotes on and about parents? We have rounded up the best collection of parents quotes, sayings, and messages,(with images and pictures) to appreciate the unconditional love, support, and sacrifice of your mother and father.
Parents play the most important role in our development. If it wasn’t for our parents, none of us would be where we are today.
From the day a child is born, parents love, protect, and support their children, and make all sacrifices to give them the best life.
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Below is some inspirational love your parents quotes, to help us appreciate, love, and show more respect for our parents.
If you want to thank your Mom and Dad on World parent’s day, their anniversary, birthday or any day then use these wonderful quotes to show how much you love them.
These words of appreciation will surely brighten their day.
Don’t forget to check out our collection of blessed family quotes and sayings to thank Almighty God for the wonderful blessing.
Best Parent Quotes
- “Loving parents are the best gift you will ever be given.” – Unknown
- “So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.” – Virginia Satir
- “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The permanent address for a daughter is her parent’s heart.” – Unknown
- “Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.” – Peter Ustinov
- “Nobody on earth can ever love you more than your parents.” – Anonymous
parents love quotes
- “There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins
- “A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided.” – Robert Brault
parent quotes
- “Thanks for being the wind beneath my wings. Happy Parent’s Day.” – Unknown
- “Good parenting gives headaches. But bad parenting gives heartaches.” – Shiv Khera
- “Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.” – Plato
- “No love is greater than mom’s love and no care is greater than dad’s care…” – Unknown
- “To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Parents should be the most important examples for their children.” – Christy Turlington
- “We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.” – Henry Ward Beecher
quotes about parents
- “Appreciate your parents. You never know what sacrifices they went through for you.” – Unknown
- “Never complain about what your parents couldn’t give you. It was probably all they had.” – Unknown
- “Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.” – Unknown
- “First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.” – Chuck Palahniuk
- “Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” – Matthew Jacobson
- “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – O. A. Battista
- “The way you treat your parents is like the story you write but your children read it to tell you.” – Unknown
- “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.” – Mitch Albom
- “Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.” – Jodi Picoult
- “A father’s goodness is higher than the mountain, a mother’s goodness deeper than the sea.” – Japanese Proverb
- “A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” – Billy Graham
- “There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” – Sophie Kinsella
- “In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well.” – Paul Young
- “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” – Oscar Wilde
- “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
- “Parents with their words, attitudes, and actions possess the ability to bless or curse the identities of their children.” – Craig Hill
- “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
- “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
- “Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.” – William Galvin
- “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
- “Most important jobs of a parent: unconditional love, comfort and protection, and a solid platform and values for future success.” – M. James Airey
- “Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.” – Barbara Walters
- “Parenting is the toughest job on earth as you are responsible for the physical, emotional and mental development of another human being.” – Unknown
- “From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.” – Helen Hayes
- “Here’s to the smile, the giggles, the little laughs, and the endless hugs. To the precious moments, when as parents, we realize we have everything we ever wished for.” – Unknown
Famous Quotes About Parents
The love of a mother and the support of a father is unconditional. They always stand through thick and thin and have always got your back.
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The sacrifices our parents make to give us a good life and future is beyond measure. Taking out time to appreciate their love and sacrifices will surely bring a smile to their face.
- “It’s not only children who grow, parents do too.” – Joyce Maynard
- “A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish Proverb
- “Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “They’ve got great parents; I’m just trying to be the fun uncle.” – Sarah Silverman
- “Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations.” – Aditia Rinaldi
- “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” – Russell Baker
- “Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.” – Irene Rosenfeld
- “The child supplies the power, but the parents have to do the steering.” – Benjamin Spock
- “My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.” – Michael Jordan
- “My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.” – Benedict Cumberbatch
- “It’s a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.” – Ama Ata Aidoo
- “Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.” – Phyllis Diller
- “The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.” – Frank A. Clark
- “What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be.” – Stephen King
- “The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.” – James E. Faust
- “Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.” – Jodie Picoult
- “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honore de Balzac
- “The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.” – Sophie Kinsella
- “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.” – Ann Brashares
- “Respect your parents because they are the one who will never let you down at any cost…..” – Anisha Upadhyay
- “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.” – Bill Ayers
- “Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.” – Jeanette Winterson
- “I don’t think it matters how many parents you’ve got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.” – Elizabeth Wurtzel
- “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
- “Being a father is the single greatest feeling on Earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.” – Ryan Reynolds
- “To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father’s hand and your mother’s lap.” – Amit Kalantri
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?” – Rick Riordan
- “The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself.” – James E. Faust
- “What’s it like to be a parent? It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” – Roald Dahl
- “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
- “Parenting is the greatest pay-it-forward system on earth. We don’t owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.” – Dan Pearce
Importance Of Parents Quotes
- “Next to God, thy parents.” – William Penn
- “We are the people our parents warned us about.” – Jimmy Buffett
- “The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” – Prevost Abbe
- “That’s all kids want to know—that you love them.” – Kim Harrison
- “A mother and daughter’s love is never separated.” – Viola Shipman
- “For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.” – Upasana Saraf
- “No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.” – Brad Meltzer
- “Fathers provide not only support but also encouragement.” – Catherine Pulsifer
- “The most important influence in my childhood was my father.” – DeForest Kelley
- “Parenting is a life time job and does not stop when a child grows up.” – Jake Slope
- “You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.” – Alice Munro
- “Being a parent doesn’t give you an excuse for bad manners.” – Rosalind Wiseman
- “Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is a parent.”- Eric Micha’el Leventhal
- “That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.” – Ivan Turgenev
- “My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything” – Sonya Sones
- “If you’ve not been loved as a child, you don’t know how to love a child.” – Jane Gardam
- “They’re your parents. They’re meant to love you because. Never in spite.” – Patrick Ness
- “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” – Erich Fromm
- “It is the responsibility of parents to love and care for their children.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.” – Randy Susan Meyers
- “In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.” – Robert Brault
- “I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.” – Robert Orben
- “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
- “My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
- “It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.” – Alice Walker
- “Don’t use the sharpness of your tongue on the mother who taught you to speak.” – Ali Ibn Abi Talib
- “You never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.” – Jennifer Hudson
- “The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.” – Ewan McGregor
- “If your parents didn’t have any children, there’s a good chance that you won’t have any.” – Clarence Day
- “My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budinton Kelland
- “Every generation just wants their kids to have a better ‘Spiderman’ reboot than they did.” – Conan O’Brien
- “I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it’s your job to stand in the way.” – Joe Hill
- “The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.” – Noah Webster
- “Step parents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather augment a child’s life experience.” – Azriel Johnson
- “To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.” – Marita Golden
- “It’s quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman
- “Only parents love you unconditionally. Everyone else carries a “Conditions Apply” tag. This is the ultimate truth of life.” – Prathamesh Medhekar
- “That’s the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don’t really care, or at least they don’t care enough to let it affect the outcome.” – Peter Monn
- “My parents…were people running from the past, who didn’t look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.” – Richard Ford
- “I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.” – Randy Harrison
Inspirational Parents Quotes On Parenthood
- “The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.” – Stewart Stafford
- “Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.” – Robbie Coltrane
- “Do your best for your parents. If you don’t, one day you will regret it.” – Debasish Mridha
- “Parenthood…It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.” – Peter Krause
- “There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.” – Henry Ward Beecher
Positive Parenting Quotes
- “The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.” – Gilbert Highet
- “Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they’re little.” – Tori Amos
- “Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.” – Frank Pittman
- “A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.” – Dave Barry
- “Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “My parents didn’t raise me to order something expensive when someone else is paying.” – Nitya Prakash
- “Good parents hardly parent. They let their kids learn, fail and grow without interference.” – Trevor Carss
- “If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you’re proud of them, celebrate.” – Dennis Prager
- “Ah, babies! They’re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.” – Tina Fey
- “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
- “If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove.” – Ron Baratono
- “Having an infant son alerts me to the fact that every man, at one point, has peed on his own face.” – Olivia Wilde
- “Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.” – Amy Vanderbilt
- “It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of the foods that my kid didn’t finish…” – Carrie Underwood
- “Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.” –Richelle E. Goodrich
- “As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we’re talking to them that our kids aren’t listening.” – Robert Brault
- “My parents have lived longer than most and have expected very little. We have been blessed in too many ways to count.” – Ralph Webster
- “Parents are living gods. They do everything to make their children happy and expect nothing in return.” – Saravana Kumar Murugan
- “Any parents are as ordinary human beings as others, making them angels or even more is up to their next generation.” – Sandeep Sahajpal
- “There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.” – Bill Clinton
- “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
- “Parents are without a doubt, one of the most, if not the most influential role models that their kids will probably have under normal circumstances.” – Joseph R. Parker
- “The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they’re proud of.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
- “The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.” – Bertrand Russell
Loving Parents Quotes
- “Children learn to smile from their parents.” – Shinichi Suzuki
- “If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” – Bette Davis
- “Of course, parents are the most important people in a child’s life.” – Hillary Clinton
- “Parents are the most precious gift given by God. We should take care of it.” – Ciril Cyriac
- “The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.” – Benjamin Spock
- “Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” – Barbara Kingsolver
- “Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.” – David O. McKay
- “No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children.” – Manu Joseph
- “Parental love is the only love that is truly selfless, unconditional and forgiving.” – Dr. T.P.Chia
- “Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.” – Iyanla Vanzant
- “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” – Kevin Heath
- “Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.” – Chinese Proverb
- “The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.” – William Shakespeare
- “At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” – Jane D. Hull
- “The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
- “The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.” – Natalie Portman
- “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” – Lemony Snicket
- “The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.” – Francis Bacon
- “A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” – Helen Rice
- “Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.” – George Santayana
- “One of the greatest titles in the world is a parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.” – Jim DeMint
- “It is the sunlight of parental love and encouragement that enables a child to grow in competence and slowly gain mastery over his environment.” – Felicity Bauer
- “I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.” – Brit Marling
- “When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It’s an awakening, a revelation that you have.” – Philip Seymour Hoffman
- “The daily choices we make as parents to filter what enters our children’s impressionable hearts and minds will go a long way in determining who our children become.” – Mark J. Musser
- “Parents are not perfect, nor are they saints. Dads and moms make mistakes all the time. How you handle these situations will be an important life lesson for your children.” – Bethany Bridges
- “Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.” – Bob Keeshan
- “But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.” – LeBron James
Parents Quotes About Parenting And Family
- “Parents are defined by their mistakes.” – Fredrik Backman
- “The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.” – Holly Gates
- “Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.” – Amit Kalantri
- “Just because you’re a parent doesn’t mean your needs aren’t important.” – Hilary Duff
- “Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.” – Bee Wilson
- “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.” – P. J. O’Rourke
- “Parents can cultivate the character of a child, not the competence of a child.” – Amit Kalantri
- “Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do.” – Harlan Coben
- “Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.” – Adam Sandler
- “Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.” – Mignon McLaughlin
- “The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.” – Janet Blaustone
- “When you realize your parents are human, that’s when you lose your innocence.” – Lidia Longorio
- “The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately — they talk to the heart.” – Hain Ginott
- “It’s difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be.” – Amy Meyerson
- “Sometimes just look at your parents as normal human beings not as your parents.” – Aashu Kandoi
- “We grow up expecting our parents to live forever until, one day, they’re suddenly gone.” – Riley Sager
- “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
- “Biology does not make a man a father–nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.” – Andrew Vachss
- “Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?” – Catherine Lacey
- “Love, respect and appreciate your parents as it is the one gift they truly cherish and desire.” – Margo Vader
Parents Quotes and Sayings
- “A mother will birth her baby once, but she will spend a lifetime birthing a person.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Parents don’t make mistakes because they don’t care, but because they care so deeply.” – T. Berry Brazelton
- “We love being your parents, but we also like being your fellow travelers on this part of the road.” – Erin Lee Carr
- “The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!” – Louise Hart
- “More than children can know what’s good for their parents, the parents know what’s good for their children.” – VKBoy
- “It is time for parents to teach young people that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
- “I know my parents care and love me, but they never show it the way that they do for my brother.” – Tashie Bhuiyan
- “Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.” – Mariska Hargitay
- “We receive our inheritance the day we learn a skill from a parent. How we use that skill will determine how far we go!” – Andrew-Knox B Kaniki
- “Parents, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, drink, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter.” – Eric Berne
Funny Parents Quotes & Sayings
- “You will always be your child’s favorite toy.” – Vicki Lansky
- “Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.” – Ed Asner
- “Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.” – Bob Harper
- “The problem with parents is that they’re adults.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- “Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.” – P. J. O’Rourke
- “You’re just like a human napkin for kids, like, they just wipe their face on you and stuff.” – Tina Fey
- “Let’s be honest, kids take the number one position and it’s haaaaard to make the time for yourself.” – Kate Hudson
- “‘I don’t think so Mommy!’ is what my child said after, ‘Can you please pick up the popcorn you threw all over?’” – Anna Faris
- “The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.” – Meryl Streep
- “Parents are like consumer brands in that, as kids, we remember only two or three key things about them, missing the nuance you only appreciate as you get older and realize people are complicated.” – Scott Galloway
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