Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Powell, Anthony

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Butler, Samuel

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Powell, Anthony

10.

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

Plato

11.

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 not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

Cosby, Bill

13.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Paul, Jean

15.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

16.

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

Mumford, Lewis

19.

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

Koop, C. Everett

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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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He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Proverb, Jewish

22.

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

West, Jessamyn

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Bible

30.

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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

33.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

35.

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

Dryden, John

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

37.

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

Clark, Frank A.

40.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

45.

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

Bush, Barbara

48.

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

49.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, American