Ability Quote by Roald Dahl

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could…

— John Hurt

“But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead of by…

— Robert R. McCammon

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

— Penelope Leach

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

— Robert Muller

Children may not inherit their parents' talent,but they absorb their values.

— Anonymous

The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have shaped my…

— Robert D. Hales

My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.

— David Gross

Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers…

— Sandra Scarr

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning,…

— Michael Spence

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to…

— Norman Douglas

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

— Maurice Saatchi