Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Talmud, The

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Plato

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Waitley, Denis

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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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

18.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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 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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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 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

25.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

26.

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

Mumford, Lewis

27.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Bible

31.

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

Paul, Jean

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

33.

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

Talmud, The

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

West, Jessamyn

38.

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

39.

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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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

41.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

Davis, Bette

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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