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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

Plato

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

Dryden, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Bible

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

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, American

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

Talmud, The

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

Cosby, Bill

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

West, Jessamyn

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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.