Famous Quotes

"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."

Ogden Nash 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 Ogden Nash

• "Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you."

• "Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

• "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

• "Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"

• "Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."