Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Plato

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Williams, Shirley

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Maynard, Joyce

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Talmud, The

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Spark, Muriel

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Bush, Barbara

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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

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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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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Levine, Michael

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.