Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

- Priestley, J. B.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Hendren, L. L.

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.

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

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

Henker, Dr.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Talmud, The

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

Bible

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Plato

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

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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, 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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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 traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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

Bush, Barbara

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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Spark, Muriel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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 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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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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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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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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.