Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Don't set your wit against a child.

- Swift, Jonathan

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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)

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Koop, C. Everett

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Plato

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cosby, Bill

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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

34.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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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.