Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

- Proverb, English

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

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

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Hendren, L. L.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Darrow, Clarence

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

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Dryden, John

12.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Priestley, J. B.

18.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Butler, Samuel

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

35.

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

Proverb, American

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Maynard, Joyce

41.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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