Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

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.

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

Marquis, Don

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Proverb, Jewish

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

10.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

Bush, Barbara

11.

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

12.

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

West, Jessamyn

13.

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

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

Darrow, Clarence

18.

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

Mumford, Lewis

19.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

20.

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

21.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

22.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Priestley, J. B.

25.

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

26.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

27.

The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Maynard, Joyce

28.

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

29.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Waitley, Denis

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

38.

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

Cosby, Bill

39.

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.

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

44.

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

45.

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

Butler, Samuel

46.

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

47.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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