Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Davis, Bette

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

Lebowitz, Fran

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.

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Talmud, The

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

Koop, C. Everett

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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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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

20.

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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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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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bush, Barbara

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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

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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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Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.

Hendren, L. L.

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

Bible

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

Paul, Jean

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Proverb, American

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.