Quotes about parents and parenting




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

Johnson, Jeremy P. on parents and parenting    Share


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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on parents and parenting    Share

"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 on parents and parenting    Share

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

Koop, C. Everett on parents and parenting
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"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 on parents and parenting    Share

"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 on parents and parenting    Share

"Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

Levine, Michael on parents and parenting
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

Locke, John on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting    Share

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

Marquis, Don on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting    Share

"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 on parents and parenting    Share

"I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on parents and parenting    Share

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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 on parents and parenting
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"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

Mumford, Lewis on parents and parenting
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"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."

Nash, Ogden on parents and parenting
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"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy on parents and parenting
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"The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored."

Paul, Jean on parents and parenting    Share

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

Plato on parents and parenting    Share

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

Powell, Anthony on parents and parenting
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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. on parents and parenting    Share

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

Proverb, American on parents and parenting
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"To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself."

Proverb, Chinese on parents and parenting
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"You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders."

Proverb, English on parents and parenting
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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 on parents and parenting    Share

"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own."

Rimbaud, Arthur on parents and parenting    Share

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

Rothschild, William E. on parents and parenting    Share

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."

Santayana, George on parents and parenting    Share

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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. on parents and parenting    Share

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

Spark, Muriel on parents and parenting    Share

"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

Steinem, Gloria on parents and parenting
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"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me."

Sterne, Laurence on parents and parenting    Share

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"Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

Sullivan, Anne on parents and parenting    Share

"Don't set your wit against a child."

Swift, Jonathan on parents and parenting    Share

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

Talmud, The on parents and parenting    Share

"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."

Toffler, Alvin on parents and parenting    Share

"My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest."

Twain, Mark on parents and parenting    Share

"If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job."

Unknown, Source on parents and parenting    Share

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

Unknown, Source on parents and parenting    Share

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