Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

- Toffler, Alvin

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Priestley, J. B.

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

Spark, Muriel

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

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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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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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 bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Clark, Frank A.

30.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Talmud, The

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Levine, Michael

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

Darrow, Clarence

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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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