Laurence Fishburne Quotes

A child's first teacher is its mother.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

My little one's only 12 and I miss seeing him grow up and trying to form him and mould him the way I'd like him to him to turn out, which is something like his dad!

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young.

One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.

I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.

I think children learn through their parents.

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.

All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents.

Kids grasp what you teach them, from crawling to walking, for everything they look up to their parents.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.