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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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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

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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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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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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Dryden, John

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Paul, Jean

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

Levine, Michael

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

Talmud, The

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Butler, Samuel

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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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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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Frost, Robert

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

Marquis, Don

39.

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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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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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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 learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Spark, Muriel

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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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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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There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

Gardner, Robert

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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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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