Parent Quotes

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

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.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.