Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

- Windsor, Edward, Duke of

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Davis, Bette

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

Cosby, Bill

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

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

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Powell, Anthony

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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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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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Talmud, The

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Plato

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Paul, Jean

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Bush, Barbara

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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Dryden, John

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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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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 are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bacon, Francis