Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Plato

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Dryden, John

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Spark, Muriel

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

West, Jessamyn

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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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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Proverb, American

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

Bacon, Francis