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

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

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

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Williams, Shirley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Powell, Anthony

10.

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

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

16.

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

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Maynard, Joyce

20.

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

Hendren, L. L.

21.

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

22.

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

Henker, Dr.

23.

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

Proverb, American

24.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

25.

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

Clark, Frank A.

27.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

28.

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

29.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

Paul, Jean

34.

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

Levine, Michael

35.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Dryden, John

39.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

40.

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Cosby, Bill

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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 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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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

45.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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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.