Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Clark, Frank A.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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

19.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Clark, Frank A.

21.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

West, Jessamyn

25.

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Paul, Jean

28.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Talmud, The

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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

34.

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Cosby, Bill

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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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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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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Hendren, L. L.

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