Quotes of Parenting - somelinesforyou

“ Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. ”

- Peter Ustinov

“ 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. ”

- Bill Cosby

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

- Bill Cosby

“ He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. ”

- Bible

“ I was raised to pretend. ”

- Anne Heche

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

- Bette Davis

“ No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- William E. Rothschild

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

- L. L. Hendren

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

- Dr. Henker

“ 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?". ”

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

“ There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents. ”

- Leon R. Yankwich

“ 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. ”

- Robert Gardner

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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. ”

- Marilyn French

“ A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. - Bill Vaughan. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. ”

- Martin Mull

“ Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ”

- Unknown

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

- Clarence Darrow

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

- Elbert Hubbard

“ If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. ”

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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

- King Edward VIII

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

- Talmud

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The most important thing that a commander can do is to see the ship from the eyes of the crew. ”

- Commander D. Michael Abrashoff

“ 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? ”

- Elizabeth Jennings

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

- Unknown

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

- Unknown

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

- Juvenal

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

- Michael Levine
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