Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

10.

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

Plato

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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 your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Darrow, Clarence

20.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, American

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

Davis, Bette

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Levine, Michael

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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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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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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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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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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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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