Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Levine, Michael

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

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Clark, Frank A.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

Williams, Shirley

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Talmud, The

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Davis, Bette

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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Cosby, Bill

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