Motivational Quotes

Parents and parenting

Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

- Rothschild, William E.

Parents and parenting Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Parents and parenting

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

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

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

West, Jessamyn

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 learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Spark, Muriel

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

Bible

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

10.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

Plato

12.

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

Dryden, John

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

Mumford, Lewis

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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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He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Waitley, Denis

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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

22.

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

Maynard, Joyce

24.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

25.

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

27.

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

Koop, C. Everett

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Hendren, L. L.

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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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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 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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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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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

37.

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

Proverb, American

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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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.

41.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

46.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

49.

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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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin