top of page
Exlpore more Parenting quotes

"This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child's mind."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them."
Author Name
Personal Development

"In parenting patience is the greatest virtue."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Author Name
Personal Development

"It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them."
Author Name
Personal Development

"So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency."
Author Name
Personal Development

"When my son was a teenager, he would use the 'poker face' tactic when I was lecturing, nagging, or suggesting. As a parent, it was maddening because I could not read his reactions! His stoicism would sometimes deflate my efforts or make me surrender in laughter, changing the subject all together."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Caroline B. Cooney

"I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up."
Parenting

"I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys."
Parenting

"My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment."
Favorite

"I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession."
Love

"I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings."
Love

"If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story."
Life

"People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's."
Life

"I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career."
Books

"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."
Books

"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
Books
bottom of page