Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

- Yankwich, Leon R.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Plato

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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 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.