Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Aidoo, Ama Ata

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Talmud, The

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

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Proverb, American

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Cosby, Bill

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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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 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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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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Levine, Michael

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

Davis, Bette

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Koop, C. Everett

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Spark, Muriel

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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