Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dryden, John

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Spark, Muriel

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Mumford, Lewis

28.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Bacon, Francis

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, American

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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 must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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