Being A Parent Means Quotes

#1. Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

Nick Earls

#2. I realize that this is what being a parent means - facing the most horrible thing that could ever happen to you and yet thinking only of how it will hurt your child.

Claudia Gray

#3. 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

#4. Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well ... Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child.

Lisa Coyne

#5. It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.

LeVar Burton

#6. I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Sam Shepard

#7. Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

Sheila Kamerman

#8. I think I was unprepared for war.

George W. Bush

#9. Children raised by the Double-Minded parent will often grow up having codependent tendencies, seeking acceptance from others, being unrealistic in their view of "self," and feeling insecure. They are confused about what it means to follow Christ, and might avoid their parents in adulthood.

Michelle Anthony

#10. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

Mamie Van Doren

#11. Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

Michael Gove

#12. Children need their parents' time and attention. Giving one's time is part of the work of love. It means being there for the child, attending to the child's needs rather than the parent's needs.

John Bradshaw

#13. Love is more important than doctrine or holiness, we are told, so we must overlook the differences. But in actuality, whenever love and unity become more important than truth and loyalty to God Himself, they become idols.

Michael S. Horton

#14. I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

Conrad Black

#15. Every ball that is kicked, Martin O'Neill will be literally kicking it

Dwight Yorke