Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Spark, Muriel

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Paul, Jean

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Davis, Bette

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

Clark, Frank A.

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Talmud, The

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Plato

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

Levine, Michael

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Spark, Muriel

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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

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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 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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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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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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