Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Butler, Samuel

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

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

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

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.

10.

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

Bible

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

Talmud, The

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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

23.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Cosby, Bill

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Levine, Michael

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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

44.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, American

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