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

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

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Davis, Bette

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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

Talmud, The

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

Proverb, American

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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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 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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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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