Quotes About Babies Growing Up

As parents, we often experience mixed feelings as we watch our little ones grow up. Here are some of the most touching quotes about babies growing up to help you cherish every moment.

Top 99 Quotes About Babies Growing Up

1. “The days are long, but the years are short.” – Gretchen Rubin
2. “You know every story, every wound, every memory. Their whole life’s happiness is wrapped up in you.” – Donna Tartt
3. “The beauty of motherhood is not in the freshly pressed shirts and smiling photos we show the world. The beauty of motherhood is in the folds and creases of our lives, the grimaces and tantrums, the moments when we have to grit our teeth to get through.” – Sarah Mae
4. “It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.” – Joyce Maynard
5. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
6. “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” – Benjamin Franklin
7. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
8. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino
9. “There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins
10. “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” – Elizabeth Stone
11. “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” – Carl Sandburg
12. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
13. “The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.” – Unknown
14. “The best way to predict your child’s future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
15. “Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.” – Maureen Hawkins
16. “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
17. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
18. “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll
19. “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
20. “The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” – Ray L. Wilbur
21. “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Unknown
22. “There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.” – Hodding Carter Jr.
23. “A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.” – Unknown
24. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” – Kahlil Gibran
25. “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” – Peggy O’Mara
26. “Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else’s happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you’re not sure what the right thing is… and to forgive yourself over and over again for doing everything wrong.” – Donna Ball
27. “The best gift you can give your children is a happy mother.” – Unknown
28. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.” – Kahlil Gibran
29. “The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.” – Harold B. Lee
30. “It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins
31. “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” – Rajneesh
32. “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren
33. “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” – Umberto Eco
34. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
35. “It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.” – Iyanla Vanzant
36. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Denis Waitley
37. “Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do.” – Matt Walsh
38. “The joys of motherhood are never fully experienced until the children are in bed.” – Unknown
39. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
40. “You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.” – Walter M. Schirra Sr.
41. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” – Unknown
42. “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – Orlando Aloysius Battista
43. “A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.” – Paulo Coelho
44. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – John Wooden
45. “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to be present.” – Unknown
46. “A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.” – Frank A. Clark
47. “The best thing to spend on your children is your time.” – Louise Hart
48. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.” – Dorothy Parker
49. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things, and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” – Agatha Christie
50. “Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they help you reach it faster, too.” – Lionel Kauffman
51. “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” – Unknown
52. “A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained.” – Lyman Abbott
53. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
54. “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a stable, loving relationship between the parents.” – Unknown
55. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” – John Wooden
56. “A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.” – Helen Rice
57. “A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – Unknown
58. “Having a child is like getting a tattoo… on your face. You better be committed.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
59. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John F. Kennedy
60. “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII
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