Parent Quotes

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

I would definitely love to be a parent.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.

I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

Being a parent is amazing.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when you were a kid or your hot-tempered mother whom you could never please.

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

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.