Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Bible

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

Davis, Bette

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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.

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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Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Proverb, American

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Talmud, The

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Marquis, Don

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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 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 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 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 traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Levine, Michael

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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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