Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

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

- Koop, C. Everett

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Marquis, Don

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

Powell, Anthony

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

Dryden, John

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

Davis, Bette

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

West, Jessamyn

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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Plato

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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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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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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 the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Ustinov, Peter

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