Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Rothschild, William E.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

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.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Marquis, Don

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

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

Davis, Bette

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

Levine, Michael

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

Bible

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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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Plato

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Talmud, The

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cosby, Bill

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

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 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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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.