Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Mumford, Lewis

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

Williams, Shirley

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

Davis, Bette

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Priestley, J. B.

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

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

Levine, Michael

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

Proverb, American

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spark, Muriel

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Plato

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.