Parent Quotes

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

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?

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.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

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 think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

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.

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.