Parent Quotes

I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

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.

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.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

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.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

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.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

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

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

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.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.