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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.
Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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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

2.
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Marquis, Don

3.
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

4.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Bacon, Francis

5.
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
Proverb, Chinese

6.
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

7.
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

8.
Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
Hendren, L. L.

9.
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
Talmud, The

10.
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.

11.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Mumford, Lewis

12.
Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
Ustinov, Peter

13.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Bush, Barbara

14.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.
Priestley, J. B.

15.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato

17.
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

18.
He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.
Proverb, Jewish

19.
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Windsor, Edward, Duke of

20.
How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

21.
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Clark, Frank A.

22.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Spark, Muriel

23.
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
West, Jessamyn

24.
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Davis, Bette

25.
The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

26.
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

27.
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Toffler, Alvin

28.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Powell, Anthony

29.
The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Maynard, Joyce

30.
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
Beecher, Henry Ward

31.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Swift, Jonathan

32.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
Dryden, John

33.
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

34.
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

35.
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
Williams, Shirley

36.
He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]
Bible

37.
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
Proverb, English

38.
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

39.
Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
Rothschild, William E.

40.
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

41.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.
Koop, C. Everett

42.
Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
Henker, Dr.

43.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Hubbard, Elbert

44.
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

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

46.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Clark, Frank A.

47.
Love well, whip well.
Franklin, Benjamin

48.
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Sullivan, Anne

49.
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

50.
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
Brown Jr., H. Jackson


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