Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Dryden, John

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hendren, L. L.

The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Maynard, Joyce

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Henker, Dr.

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

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Spark, Muriel

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, American

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Dryden, John

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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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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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