Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Powell, Anthony

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Paul, Jean

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

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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.

10.

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

Plato

11.

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

Koop, C. Everett

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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

13.

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 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 not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

Cosby, Bill

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

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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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

28.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Bible

32.

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

Spark, Muriel

35.

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Henker, Dr.

40.

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

41.

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

Clark, Frank A.

42.

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

Talmud, The

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

Powell, Anthony

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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