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

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bible

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

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.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Proverb, American

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

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Plato

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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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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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

West, Jessamyn

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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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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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.