Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Levine, Michael

10.

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

Plato

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

17.

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

Talmud, The

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

21.

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

22.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Clark, Frank A.

24.

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

25.

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

Koop, C. Everett

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Powell, Anthony

32.

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

Dryden, John

33.

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

34.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Bible

37.

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

Spark, Muriel

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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.

41.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

42.

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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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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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.

45.

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

Proverb, American

46.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.