Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

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Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

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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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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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 must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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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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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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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

West, Jessamyn

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

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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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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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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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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 your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Dryden, John

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Mumford, Lewis

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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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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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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