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

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Clark, Frank A.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Powell, Anthony

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

Proverb, American

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Bible

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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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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Koop, C. Everett

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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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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 your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Davis, Bette

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

Plato

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Talmud, The

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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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