Parent Quotes

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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?

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.