Here are some of my favorite parenting quotes, and the ones you’ll be hearing during my keynote.
All the best to you and your family!
Michele Borba
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
-C.G. Jung
The highest measure of a civilization lies in how it cares for its children.
-Margaret Mead
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
-George Herbert
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
-Anthony Brandt
My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
-Clarence Kelland
A child born into a home of ideals has inherited the finest and best which life can give him.
-Harry H. Epstein
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.
-Harry Ward Beecher
All I am is what my mother made me.
-John Quincy Adams
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
- Kahlil Gibran
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the hearts of a child.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All a child’s life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes.
- E.M. Forster
Children can have no better inheritance than believing parents.
-Nels F.S. Ferre
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.
-Confucius
-Dr. Michele Borba