Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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.

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.

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

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

Henker, Dr.

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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Talmud, The

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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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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Levine, Michael

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

Davis, Bette

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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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 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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.