Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Bush, Barbara

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

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

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Proverb, American

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

Cosby, Bill

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Paul, Jean

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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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

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

Henker, Dr.

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Hendren, L. L.

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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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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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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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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Spark, Muriel

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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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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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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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