Famous Quotes

"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."

Miriam Makeba on Parenting

More quotes about Parenting

• "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."

  Buddha on Parenting

• "A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

  Billy Graham on Parenting

• "We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Parenting

• "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

  Sigmund Freud on Parenting

• "Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."

  Ron Taffel on Parenting

More quotes by Miriam Makeba

• "Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."

• "Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time."

• "Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."

• "In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home."

• "And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."