Best Parent Sayings

#1. If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#2. The best parent, the best sibling, the best friend and even God are more interested in being with you, than above you,

Sarah Young

#3. I want to be the best parent I can be. I want to be the best husband I can be

David Archuleta

#4. Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.

Sara Quin

#5. So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and expect the occasional nicety to count for much. Those bonds break away much more quickly and permanently than most people would like to believe.

Anthony Breznican

#6. A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

Mary Cholmondeley

#7. Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.

Vijay Singh

#8. When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep all the balls in the air if you like - because we all want to know how to be the best mom that we possibly can be.

Tess Daly

#9. Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd think ill of any parent whose aspirations were lower.) The rub is that the best schools tend to be located in more expensive neighborhoods.

Bob Frank

#10. Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.

David Beckham

#11. Being abandoned by a child or children is the most traumatic experience ever suffered by a parent. It's a life-changing event, best- described as a living death. There

Sally Miller

#12. The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#13. I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

Heidi Klum

#14. I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever.

Vanessa Hudgens

#15. His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?

Dave Eggers

#16. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

Nikki Sixx

#17. Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster ... they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

Christopher Lasch

#18. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.

John Dewey

#19. Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.

Robert Webb

#20. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

Mike Krzyzewski

#21. The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

Zig Ziglar

#22. I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.

Julie Delpy

#23. I'd like to know more about this undercover agent who posed as my daughter's date. The ubiquitous Tall, Dark, and Smoldering.'
Nick put on his best meet-the-parent smile. 'I generally prefer to go by Nick.

Julie James

#24. The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

Nancy Lublin

#25. The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.

Terry Crews

#26. The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

Jim George

#27. We've got the best kind of parents for us, in this situation. My parents are super supportive of me and really into our band. They get just as excited as we do, about stuff that we do. So, it's pretty cool.

Mattew Nicholls

#28. The hardest thing about being a parent is watching your kids make mistakes. Our instinct is to protect you. But you're right, Deenie. Sometimes we have to step aside and let you make them anyway. The best we can do is be there when you mess up.

Lisi Harrison

#29. Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.

Jessica Alba

#30. That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

Caitlyn Jenner

#31. The best that a parent can be ... A demonstrator ... A consistent, constant demonstrator of being in your own Vortex.

Esther Hicks

#32. There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

Jessica Valenti

#33. No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Billy Graham

#34. Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#35. That's the same thing I imagine every parent faces when they have a child. You'll be great, Kate. Because it matters to you, you'll do your best to be everything he needs.

Jennifer Ryan

#36. An exhausted parent can't provide the best care, although occasionally, we have all had to do so.

Charisse Montgomery

#37. The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

Drew Barrymore

#38. I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.

John Edwards

#39. I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely.

Harrison Ford

#40. Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

Katie Hafner

#41. How could someone who has never lost a parent, a lover, or a best friend have the faintest clue about what any of this means?

Lena Dunham

#42. Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#43. One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent - or, for that matter, an effective human being - is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to get into their world.

Jane Nelsen

#44. It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.

Johnny Vegas

#45. As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility is to be irresponsible. As soon as you talk about political or social responsibility, you've amputated the best limbs you've got as an artist.

David Cronenberg

#46. What every new parent needs.a ton of expert advice, presented with humor and zero negativity, from two moms who instantly feel like your best friends. This is the one pregnancy guide that new parents will actually want to read.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#47. It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.

Candace Bushnell

#48. I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#49. Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

Michael Moore

#50. Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy
that of the family
it is from their interactions with peers that they can best learn how to survive among equals in a wide range of social situations.

Zick Rubin

#51. The Government's going to pass a bill regarding schools. Well I never. Interfering gang they are, as if a parent doesn't know what's best for her own child. I don't know, I don't know! We won't be able to call our children our own just now.

James Hanley

#52. The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

Sydney J. Harris

#53. An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.

Charisse Montgomery

#54. Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.

Ezra Taft Benson

#55. The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.

Harlan Lane

#56. It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

Kerri Walsh

#57. Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else and have your best interests at heart.

James E. Faust

#58. Falling as deeply in love with as many people, places, and things as you possibly can -- that's the best revenge on the unjust brevity of this fragile life.

Marc Parent

#59. The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

Candice Bergen

#60. As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

Diane Keaton

#61. The same way all the people I love factor in - my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the people I love are always right there. I don't have a lot of people in my life, but there's a small group of people that I don't like to do things without.

Jack Antonoff

#62. The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

George Bernard Shaw

#63. And for a lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it's no different with a horse than with a kid ... You can't always be the kid's best friend. First you have to be the parent.

Buck Brannaman

#64. Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.

Jessica Valenti

#65. When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.

Karen Lewis

#66. What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.

Adrian Young

#67. The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

Larry David

#68. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

Louise J. Kaplan

#69. I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

Soleil Moon Frye

#70. to become a parent was to go around with your heart flayed open for the rest of your life. Moving the earth and giving your best for your kids, with no guarantee your best would be enough to keep them safe.

Suanne Laqueur

#71. The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

Harlan Coben

#72. Let's not ask whether the parents are gay or heterosexual. The important thing is who the best parents are in each individual case.

Jens Spahn

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Erica Jong

#78. My mother kept alive the best part for my sister and me. At the same time, she's always been someone who's very straight and solid, which wasn't that -common in families with "'68er" parents.

Clemence Poesy

#79. There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

Timothy Carey

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Barton Gellman

#81. I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

Ken Osmond

#82. Any parent wants what is best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.

Tony Blair

#83. Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent another generation of thinkers. All gone.
Our seeds are disappearing.

Janisse Ray

#84. Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.

Rob Paulsen

#85. I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.

Robert Forster

#86. You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Bruno Bettelheim

#87. The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

John Walsh

#88. One of the best things you can do as a parent is to realize that your child is nothing like you, and everything like you.

Jenny Lawson

#89. There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

George Bernard Shaw

#90. Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

Sophia Amoruso

#91. We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

Carly Fiorina

#92. Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

Simon Sinek

#93. One of the great blessings of the plan is that we are organized into families. You have parents whose greater wisdom and experience will help you reach your divine potential. Trust them. They want the best for you.

Mary N. Cook

#94. Education is the best gift my parent gave me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#95. A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

Wes Fesler

#96. Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

Wes Fesler

#97. As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

David W. Earle

#98. It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll distract you with some ice cream or something. And I don't know if that's always the best thing. But it's certainly - you understand why people do it.

Pete Docter

#99. You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.

Anne Lamott

#100. I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin all your best-laid plans.

Tina Fey