Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

- Yankwich, Leon R.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dryden, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Levine, Michael

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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin