Parent Quotes

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

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

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

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

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

There's never been a parent in my life.

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.

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.