Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Proverb, American

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

West, Jessamyn

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

The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Maynard, Joyce

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dryden, John

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Paul, Jean

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

Clark, Frank 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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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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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

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Henker, Dr.