Top 100 Quotes About Being A Parent
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
MaryJanice Davidson
#4. 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
#5. If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a ... lot of cardio just from being a parent.
Hugh Jackman
#6. There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.
Jim Gaffigan
#7. Someone once wrote that worrying is the hardest thing about being a parent.
Yoko Ogawa
#8. I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
Melissa Etheridge
#9. 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.
Ani DiFranco
#10. that is the rub of being a parent. You have infinite capacity to forgive, and infinite capacity to grieve every time your child stumbles." "I
Molly Jameson
#11. 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
#12. Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?
Alice Dreger
#13. Well, the hardest thing about being a parent is recalibration. The better you are at it, the better you will be." At
Hanya Yanagihara
#14. But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.
LeBron James
#15. Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.
Cate Blanchett
#16. Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
Rosalind Wiseman
#17. 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
#18. To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child ... The security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child's feeling secure about himself.
Bruno Bettelheim
#19. Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.
Bart Decrem
#20. The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.
Vera Farmiga
#21. A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around.
Cody McFadyen
#22. I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
Jeff Bridges
#23. Being a parent is very important to me.
Diana Ross
#24. 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.
Benjamin Bratt
#25. The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
John Lennon
#26. Financial and energy-sapping struggle, was that being a parent on your own when you were totally out of your depth was actually the loneliest place on earth.
Jojo Moyes
#27. Being a writer, I think, is much like being a parent or a pet parent in my case. I love all of my characters equally, even if I want you to hate them, I love them. If you don't love all your characters you're not doing it right.
Ellie Elisabeth
#28. I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
Thom Yorke
#29. There's no real manual on being a parent. There's no real manual on being a wife. I keep reminding myself, My mother did all this, only she never got to leave the house. OK, I can do this. We're all learning on our own learning curve.
Kelly Ripa
#30. I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.
Taylor Hanson
#31. Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world ... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#32. I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.
Julie Christie
#33. One of the most difficult things about being a parent is that you have to bear the fact that you have to frustrate your child.
Jennifer Senior
#34. Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
Noel Gallagher
#35. It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
Patricia Richardson
#36. A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
Louis C.K.
#37. The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
Samuel Morse
#38. 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
#39. Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
Dee Snider
#40. Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.
Art Alexakis
#41. Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.
Jerry Hall
#43. Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.
Jarod Kintz
#44. 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.
Joy Bryant
#46. Being a parent is as easy as counting to one million - most anyone can do it, but it's exhausting - and periodically rewarding (like when you reach five hundred thousand) - and once you're done, you are not sure why you did it - but it was worth it.
Eugene Mirman
#47. The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl's mother.
Ayelet Waldman
#48. Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.
Marianne Williamson
#49. Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#50. I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
Stephen King
#51. One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
C. K. Williams
#52. I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek' ...
Clint Eastwood
#54. What I do is so important to me. It's like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.
Lorde
#55. When you're around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you're supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
Adam Sandler
#56. When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#57. That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and
in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love
you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.
Ursula Hegi
#58. Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
Eric Church
#59. What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#60. [E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time ... As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.
Kimberly McCreight
#61. What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.
Meghan Daum
#62. I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.
Michael Sheen
#63. As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.
Kate Winslet
#64. There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.
Marlee Matlin
#65. There's nothing better in life than being a parent, there's nothing more beautiful in life than women, there's nothing more precious in life than time, and there's nothing in life more magical than life itself.
Ben Tolosa
#66. One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
Joyce Maynard
#67. Being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.
Anna Quindlen
#68. Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that's always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,
Fredrik Backman
#69. The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
Danny McBride
#70. You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.
Raymond Kelly
#71. I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.
Michael Sandel
#72. It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.
Johnny Vegas
#73. Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
J. B. Smoove
#74. I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.
Lauren DeStefano
#75. Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.
Russell Crowe
#76. Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.
Michael Josephson
#77. To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.
Ozzy Osbourne
#78. 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.
Emma Donoghue
#79. Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
Nick Cave
#80. Being a parent is a selfless adventure. The worldview of "Take care of yourself first" is no longer logical to a sane person if your baby wakes up hungry in the middle of the night.
Jim Gaffigan
#81. I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.
Cheryl Ladd
#82. Being a parent doesn't get any easier, ... it just gets hard in a different way.
Allison Pearson
#83. The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.
Anonymous
#85. You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
Robert Charles Wilson
#86. 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
#87. ...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.
Anne Lamott
#88. 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
#89. Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.
Eva Amurri
#90. Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.
David O. McKay
#91. Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It's everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012).
Jill Smokler
#92. Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.
Rob Letterman
#93. I consider myself a modern-day dad, where I still got rock'n'roll in me, but yet I take being a parent and relationships very seriously in life. I'm tired of the image of the father as a fat, beer-chugging, stupid guy. That image has to change. I'm changing it, baby, one city at a time.
Jim Breuer
#94. No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.
Elizabeth George
#95. Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die. And then some. Mum, there is nothing to forgive. You gave me life. And, hey, you're not crazy anymore. Everybody thinks I am. Real funny, mum.
Christopher Titus
#96. It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.
Joan Cusack
#97. Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.
Maya Harris
#98. Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
Ron Taffel
#99. Being a parent is standing on a shore and watching her child in a vulnerable craft, heading out over deeper and deeper water, hoping but not knowing there will be land somewhere ahead.
Matt Haig
#100. The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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