Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Love well, whip well.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Butler, Samuel

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.

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

Paul, Jean

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Henker, Dr.

10.

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

11.

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

Talmud, The

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Proverb, American

32.

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

West, Jessamyn

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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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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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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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.

48.

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

Bible

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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