Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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.

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

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Powell, Anthony

10.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

11.

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

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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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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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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 the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bible

24.

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

Proverb, American

28.

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

29.

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

Paul, Jean

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Henker, Dr.

33.

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

34.

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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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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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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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.

38.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Talmud, The

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

Koop, C. Everett

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Davis, Bette

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

Waitley, Denis

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin