Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Maynard, Joyce

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

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Dryden, John

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Henker, Dr.

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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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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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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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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Levine, Michael

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

Plato

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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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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.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Cosby, Bill

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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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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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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Davis, Bette