Parent Quotes
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
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My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
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My mom was a single parent.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.
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The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
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You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.
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Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
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Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.
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I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
