Best 3570 quotes in «parent quotes» category

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

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

Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them in much the way I remember my mom: as loving and kind.

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

Being a parent is amazing.

Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

Being a parent is very important to me.

being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.

Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Being pregnant and having a toddler, as every parent says, is amazing. You're very tired, but it's so wonderful. God, it's emotional, but it's the best. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body instinctually yielded to the needs of this growing being, and I had no choice but to embrace what was happening and all that lay ahead, even if I was afraid and uncertain. So, while being a parent has made writing more challenging, it has also made being a writer more certain. There's no room to procrastinate; there is to time for fear.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, "So when did you start and why? What about your parents?" I say to them, "Please, have you heard of the word Google?

Believing that your parents are always right.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

Both of my parents were musicians.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought me Steve Martin records and let me watch R-rated comedies long before they probably should have.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.