Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

Priestley, J. B.

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Talmud, The

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Dryden, John

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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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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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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