Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Powell, Anthony

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

Wilde, Oscar

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Marquis, Don

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Mumford, Lewis

10.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Clark, Frank A.

11.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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 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

20.

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

West, Jessamyn

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

22.

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

Talmud, The

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Butler, Samuel

27.

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.

28.

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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

32.

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

Clark, Frank A.

33.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

Williams, Shirley

34.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Henker, Dr.

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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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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

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

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

42.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

43.

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

Bush, Barbara

47.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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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 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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin