Top 94 Great Parent Quotes

#1. Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.

Dana Gould

Great Parent Quotes #22504
#2. Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Laura C. Schlessinger

Great Parent Quotes #47203
#3. Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.

MaryJanice Davidson

Great Parent Quotes #58838
#4. I have a great support team. I have very understanding parents that do not put too much pressure on me, and I have close friends that I lean on for support.

Olivia Stuck

Great Parent Quotes #94414
#5. If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

Benjamin Clementine

Great Parent Quotes #100851
#6. All that a child needs is a great love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great Parent Quotes #111557
#7. What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.

Nathaniel Branden

Great Parent Quotes #128197
#8. The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

Carly Fiorina

Great Parent Quotes #162817
#9. My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

Idina Menzel

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#10. Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.

Mason Cooley

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#11. My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

Winona Ryder

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#12. Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

Melissa Breen

Great Parent Quotes #274327
#13. Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Lemony Snicket

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#14. The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

George Will

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#15. Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

John Ray

Great Parent Quotes #383104
#16. As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

Spike Jonze

Great Parent Quotes #443908
#17. 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

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#18. If you remain humble, people will give you love and respect even after you have finished with the game. As a parent, I would be happier hearing people say, "Sachin is a good human being" than "Sachin is a great cricketer" any day.

Sachin Tendulkar

Great Parent Quotes #497955
#19. I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

John Green

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#20. One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

Bill Crawford

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#21. The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.

George Mason

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#22. You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.

George Gerbner

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#23. Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great Parent Quotes #602575
#24. Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Great Parent Quotes #607173
#25. There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

Josh Radnor

Great Parent Quotes #615967
#26. Darkness, thou first great parent of us all,
Thou art our great original!

Thomas Yalden

Great Parent Quotes #676536
#27. There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Great Parent Quotes #682682
#28. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-
great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Great Parent Quotes #693338
#29. I had this great urge ... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

Dian Fossey

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#30. Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

Isaac Watts

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#31. I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Danny Bonaduce

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#32. I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them.

Dwyane Wade

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#33. Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Thomas Carlyle

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#34. My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

Maya Angelou

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#35. I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

Margaret Thatcher

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#36. The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

John Woolman

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#37. Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Thomas Jefferson

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#38. I've got great genetics from parents, and I'm not moaning that I have such a hard life. Trust me; it's worked out so much more in the positive then the negative.

Channing Tatum

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#39. I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.

Usain Bolt

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#40. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Robert South

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#41. The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.

Erasmus Darwin

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#42. I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

Abby Sunderland

Great Parent Quotes #906245
#43. Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Great Parent Quotes #912787
#44. I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.

Henry Rollins

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#45. Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.

Bruno Bettelheim

Great Parent Quotes #970906
#46. If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.

Joel Osteen

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#47. Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

Stacey Lee

Great Parent Quotes #998335
#48. A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Jeremy Taylor

Great Parent Quotes #1029025
#49. There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Tony Robbins

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#50. There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.

Frank Pittman

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#51. And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

Anna Quindlen

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#52. If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

Geoffrey Canada

Great Parent Quotes #1139906
#53. If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

Hosea Ballou

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#54. Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.

John G. Miller

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#55. 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

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#56. I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

Hector Elizondo

Great Parent Quotes #1205115
#57. My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.

Christopher Bollen

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#58. Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.

J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

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#59. Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

Jojo Moyes

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#60. I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

Ewan McGregor

Great Parent Quotes #1256880
#61. I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

George Clooney

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#62. I did three DVD's for 'Baby Einstein,' teaching babies how to sign. It really helps a parent communicate because babies can't talk. But it has been proven that they can communicate using their hands to communicate. So sign language is a great tool in that way.

Marlee Matlin

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#63. Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

Bertrand Russell

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#64. The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Arnold Bennett

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#65. I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

Suzanne Vega

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#66. I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

Roseanne Barr

Great Parent Quotes #1363737
#67. My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.

Isabel Wilkerson

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#68. I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.

Ethan Hawke

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#69. Children are great observers.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#70. Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.

BD Wong

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#71. Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

Pope Francis

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#72. Losing a parent is a hard thing ... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

Wayne Swan

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#73. I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.

Siegbert Tarrasch

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#74. Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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#75. EVOLUTION
A great parent/mentor/teacher will push you beyond their attained status

Kamil Ali

Great Parent Quotes #1519161
#76. Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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#77. 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

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#78. As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Eric Alterman

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#79. It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

Malala Yousafzai

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#80. My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Edward Brooke

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#81. If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate ... Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

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#82. A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.

Gloria Estefan

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#83. I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

Ann Brashares

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#84. I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

Adrian Peterson

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#85. I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a parent.

Audrey Niffenegger

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#86. Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

John Strachan

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#87. The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

Horace

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#88. A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams.

Randy Pausch

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#89. I've changed a great deal. I used to be vicious to my parents, just because they objected to me going full-time with a group. Now I can see that all they wanted was the best for me. And we get on great.

Peter Ham

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#90. My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

Mike Berenstain

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#91. I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

Jane Wagner

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#92. I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.

Brigham Young

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#93. Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

Madonna Ciccone

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#94. I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.

Ken Osmond

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