Quotes about parents and parenting

"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

Addison, Joseph on parents and parenting
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"It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children."

Aidoo, Ama Ata on parents and parenting
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"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 on parents and parenting
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"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."

Bacon, Francis on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves."

Beecher, Henry Ward on parents and parenting
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"He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]"

Bible on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on parents and parenting
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"You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way."

Bush, Barbara on parents and parenting
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"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children."

Butler, Samuel on parents and parenting
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"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly."

Cervantes, Miguel De on parents and parenting
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"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them."

Clark, Frank A. on parents and parenting
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"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."

Clark, Frank A. on parents and parenting
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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. on parents and parenting
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"Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet."

Cosby, Bill on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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"My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it."

Crisp, Quentin on parents and parenting
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"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

Darrow, Clarence on parents and parenting
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"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."

Davis, Bette on parents and parenting
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"How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go."

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."

Dryden, John on parents and parenting
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"Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on parents and parenting
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"A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary."

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield on parents and parenting
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"Let your children go if you want to keep them."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on parents and parenting
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"Love well, whip well."

Franklin, Benjamin on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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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. on parents and parenting
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"Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't."

Hendren, L. L. on parents and parenting
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"Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him."

Henker, Dr. on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Hubbard, Elbert on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting
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