Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- West, Jessamyn

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Powell, Anthony

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

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

Bush, Barbara

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Priestley, J. B.

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

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Hendren, L. L.

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Talmud, The

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Plato

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

Spark, Muriel

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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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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, American

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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

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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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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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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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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