Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Dryden, John

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

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

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Levine, Michael

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

Talmud, The

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

Davis, Bette

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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