Parent Quotes

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

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.

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.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.