Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

- Ustinov, Peter

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

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.

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

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Paul, Jean

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Dryden, John

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

Hendren, L. L.

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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Spark, Muriel

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.

Henker, Dr.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bush, Barbara

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Proverb, Chinese

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