Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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.

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

Davis, Bette

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

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

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

Priestley, J. B.

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

Bible

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

West, Jessamyn

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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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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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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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Waitley, Denis