Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

- Sullivan, Anne

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Darrow, Clarence

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

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.

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

Powell, Anthony

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.

Koop, C. Everett

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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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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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The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

Paul, Jean

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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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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Waitley, Denis

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Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Levine, Michael

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

Henker, Dr.

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The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Talmud, The

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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Aristotle

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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

Wilde, Oscar

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.