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

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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.

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

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

Bible

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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Bloom, Allan

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Levine, Michael

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Spark, Muriel

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Talmud, The

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

Mumford, Lewis

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Davis, Bette

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dryden, John

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

Proverb, American

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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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