Motivational Quotes

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Proverb, American

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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 are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Plato

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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Cosby, Bill

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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

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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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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Lebowitz, Fran