Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Proverb, American

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.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Priestley, J. B.

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

Plato

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

Paul, Jean

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

Cosby, Bill

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

Davis, Bette

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

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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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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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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