Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Davis, Bette

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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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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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

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dryden, John

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Plato

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bush, Barbara

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

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

Cosby, Bill

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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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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.