Top 100 A Parent Quotes
#1. Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves.
T. Berry Brazelton
#2. I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.
Al Smith
#3. The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.
Dustin Hoffman
#4. You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal.
Marc Parent
#5. I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.
Molly Crabapple
#6. The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.
John Rosemond
#7. Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#8. I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#9. But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
Arianna Huffington
#10. At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
Khaled Hosseini
#12. I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.
Missy Higgins
#13. The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.
Jon Appleton
#14. Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
Harlan Coben
#15. No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.
Rhea Perlman
#16. A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.
Jessica Alba
#17. Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.
Kate Winslet
#18. I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
Cindy Crawford
#19. there's going to come a time when we won't speak for days on end." "There won't." "There will. Every parent thinks it will never happen to them, but it happens to everyone.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#20. As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.
Deron Williams
#21. How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#22. Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
Gail Parent
#23. I have always been motivated by a greater good. As a child, I was taught by my parents to be good and to do good at all times and in all ways!
James May
#24. Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.
Richard Corliss
#25. Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)
Kurt Vonnegut
#26. We need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether it was a spouse, or a child, or a parent, or anybody else for that matter, there must be somebody who gives our lives purpose.
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.
Lionel Shriver
#28. While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#29. I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
Jane Campion
#30. Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.
Sheryl Sandberg
#31. It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.
Laura Bush
#32. A mindful parent is one who is committed to practicing being present and awake, and to listening deeply to her child, moment by moment. Mindfulness depends upon awareness.
Shauna L. Shapiro
#33. Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.
B.J. The Chicago Kid
#34. If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
Neil Gaiman
#35. Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.
Dana Gould
#36. Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease.
Ryu Murakami
#37. As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.
LZ Granderson
#38. It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
Thomas Jefferson
#39. My friend and I were up to all sorts of shenanigans at school. But one time it ended up disrupting the whole class and we got in trouble. His parents told him he wasn't allowed to hang out with me any more. I had a friendship break-up in third grade. It was brutal.
Arj Barker
#40. My personal philosophy is that, as a parent, it is my job to find that balance of when my child is ready to try something on her own and when she needs help.
Alice Callahan
#41. Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off ...
Jenna Blum
#42. As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.
Leigh Anne Tuohy
#43. I was between 14 and 15, when I went through my angsty period. I was never very rebellious. I never did things to rebel against society, or against my parents, but I did think I knew everything. Then, one day, I woke up and realized I was a dot in this universe, and that quickly dissipated.
Shailene Woodley
#44. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama
#45. Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
George Osborne
#46. Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.
David A. Bednar
#47. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
Shel Silverstein
#48. When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.
Brooklyn Sudano
#49. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.
Tina Fey
#50. When you become a parent, you become a superhero. You realize you have more strength, energy and love than is humanly possible.
Kailin Gow
#51. I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.
Andrew Solomon
#52. Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.
Peter Gallagher
#53. [A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.
Bill Clegg
#54. Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.
Rick Riordan
#55. As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
Melinda Gates
#56. My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.
Mark Prior
#57. I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent
who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter
friend. I do love you, dear Mama.
Julia Quinn
#58. Didn't it often happen, she thought, that aged parents die exactly at the moment when other people (your husband, your adolescent children) have stopped being thrilled to see you coming? But a parent is always thrilled, always dwells so lovingly on your face as you are speaking.
Anne Tyler
#59. Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
Robert Breault
#60. And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
Sydney J. Harris
#62. My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.
Nellie McKay
#63. The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
Joyce Cary
#64. He was taking a moderate dose of Thorazine, which was enough to make anybody a complete zombie, and a very low dose of Benadryl to help combat the side-effects of the Thorazine.
Randall Parent
#65. If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
Ed Stoppard
#66. Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
Ogden Nash
#67. Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
Cal Thomas
#68. Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.
Jean Sasson
#69. I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.
Bill Simmons
#70. When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.
Robert Evans
#71. Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
MaryJanice Davidson
#72. I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.
Diane Lane
#73. I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
Dee Snider
#74. You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
Lisa Gardner
#75. Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.
Conan O'Brien
#76. My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.
Matt Berninger
#77. I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?
Irvin D. Yalom
#78. Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
Chanakya
#79. Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a friend, for every child who has lost a parent, for every parent who has lost a child; for any suffering anywhere.
Sebastian Pole
#80. I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.
Jenna Fischer
#81. What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'
Samuel West
#82. You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life.
Alberto Villoldo
#83. I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.
John Green
#84. A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
Euripides
#85. To be a husband or wife, to be a parent, is inevitably to be aware of so many disappointing, exasperating things about your mate or child, but at the same time to see those people in depth, to see them with both eyes, and to be reminded of why you still love them.
Harold S. Kushner
#86. I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it.
Marc Parent
#88. I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.
Paula Hawkins
#89. Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
Carl Jung
#90. The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
James Ellroy
#91. Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
Chuck Palahniuk
#93. I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
Jodi Picoult
#94. The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
James E. Faust
#95. To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.
Irvin D. Yalom
#96. Being pregnant and having a toddler, as every parent says, is amazing. You're very tired, but it's so wonderful. God, it's emotional, but it's the best. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
Drew Barrymore
#97. It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.
Albert Einstein
#98. The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.
Queen Victoria
#99. Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
Marianne Williamson
#100. Speaking of messy, I recently quit parenting. I do not parent in August. August parenting is not a good look for me. It's hotter than hell, and the children and I have already had a whole lot of togetherness.
Glennon Doyle Melton
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