Motivational Quotes

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Hendren, L. L.

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Maynard, Joyce

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Dryden, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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

Plato

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Spark, Muriel

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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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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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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, American

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Henker, Dr.

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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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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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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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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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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