Parent Quotes
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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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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Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
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Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.
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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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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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Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
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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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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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A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.
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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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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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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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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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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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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.
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I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
