Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

- Marquis, Don

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Bloom, Allan

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

Keillor, Garrison

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

Beckett, Samuel

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Morrison, Jim

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Goodrich, Samuel G.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Darrow, Clarence

Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.

Hendren, L. L.

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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Macneil, Robert

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Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Hill, Grant

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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Powell, Anthony

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To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

Lennon, John

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

Williams, Shirley

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Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.

Henker, Dr.

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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Maynard, Joyce

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Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

Cosby, Bill

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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Marquis, Don

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Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

Rothschild, William E.

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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Clark, Frank A.

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Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

West, Jessamyn

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How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.

Bishop, Russell

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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Spark, Muriel

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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

Priestley, J. B.

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Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Cosby, Bill

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If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

Jennings, Elizabeth

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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Mumford, Lewis

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To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

French, Marilyn

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Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years.

Bombeck, Erma

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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?