Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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.

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Levine, Michael

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

10.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bacon, Francis

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Bible

20.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

Hendren, L. L.

22.

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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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Spark, Muriel

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

Priestley, J. B.

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

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

Proverb, American

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

Clark, Frank A.

39.

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

Williams, Shirley

42.

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Paul, Jean

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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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