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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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Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

2.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Hubbard, Elbert

3.
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Davis, Bette

4.
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
Talmud, The

5.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
Wilde, Oscar

6.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Bacon, Francis

7.
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
Proverb, Chinese

8.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato

9.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Clark, Frank A.

10.
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
Yankwich, Leon R.

11.
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

12.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Waitley, Denis

13.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Toffler, Alvin

14.
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

15.
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.
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

17.
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.

18.
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
Proverb, American

19.
Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
Rothschild, William E.

20.
The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

21.
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
West, Jessamyn

22.
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

23.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.
Priestley, J. B.

24.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Bush, Barbara

25.
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
Beecher, Henry Ward

26.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Swift, Jonathan

27.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Mumford, Lewis

28.
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

29.
Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
Henker, Dr.

30.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Marquis, Don

31.
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

32.
Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Levine, Michael

33.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
Dryden, John

34.
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Rimbaud, Arthur

35.
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

36.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Powell, Anthony

37.
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

38.
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

39.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.
Koop, C. Everett

40.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Butler, Samuel

41.
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

42.
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
Williams, Shirley

43.
The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Maynard, Joyce

44.
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

45.
The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
Paul, Jean

46.
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Sullivan, Anne

47.
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

48.
Love well, whip well.
Franklin, Benjamin

49.
Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
Cosby, Bill

50.
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
Johnson, Jeremy P.


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