Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

- Rothschild, William E.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Davis, Bette

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Clark, Frank A.

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

10.

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

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

Mumford, Lewis

12.

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Bush, Barbara

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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 giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

Rothschild, William E.

20.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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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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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

30.

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

31.

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

32.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

33.

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

34.

Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.

Hendren, L. L.

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

Talmud, The

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Plato

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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

46.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

47.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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.