Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Bacon, Francis

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

West, Jessamyn

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Henker, Dr.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Davis, Bette

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

Plato

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

Spark, Muriel

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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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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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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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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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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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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 not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

Cosby, Bill

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Dryden, John

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Talmud, The

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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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The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

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

Levine, Michael

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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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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, American

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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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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