Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

- Ustinov, Peter

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Bush, Barbara

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

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

Spark, Muriel

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Proverb, American

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

West, Jessamyn

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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Bible

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Plato

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

Dryden, John

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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 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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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.