Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Aidoo, Ama Ata

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Maynard, Joyce

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Levine, Michael

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Talmud, The

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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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He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]

Bible

15.

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

Davis, Bette

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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Hendren, L. L.

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You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

Bush, Barbara

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Proverb, Jewish

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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cosby, Bill

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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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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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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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.

Proverb, American

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

West, Jessamyn

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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

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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