Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

- Sullivan, Anne

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

Williams, Shirley

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Koop, C. Everett

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Talmud, The

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

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wilde, Oscar

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

10.

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

Mumford, Lewis

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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

19.

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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

21.

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Clark, Frank A.

26.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Plato

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

33.

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.

34.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

40.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Dryden, John

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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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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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