Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Clark, Frank A.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Davis, Bette

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Bush, Barbara

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.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Spark, Muriel

10.

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

15.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Talmud, The

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Dryden, John

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Paul, Jean

34.

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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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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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Plato

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Levine, Michael

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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.