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Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.
— Christie Brinkley
When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.
— Christina Aguilera
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.
— Stephen Burt
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
— Robert Breault
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
— Etgar Keret
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
— Al Bernstein
As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
— Alan King
As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.
— Aretha Franklin
Driving out of the car park, Mum switches off the radio. It's as sure a sign as any that she's about to parent. 'So,
— Will Kostakis
The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.
— Jonah Goldberg
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.
— Philip Pullman
My task as a therapist (not unlike that of a parent) is to make myself obsolete - to help a patient become his or her own mother and father
— Irvin D. Yalom
It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.
— Henry Clay Trumbull
As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.
— LeBron James
As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.
— Deron Williams
A child owes respect to a parent, but there is no natural obligation to like a parent - unless the parent makes himself likable as a person.
— Sydney J. Harris
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.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.
— Nelson Mandela
The Creator of the universe longs to have a relationship with me. He is my Husband, my Provider, and my closest Confidant as a single parent.— Lorilyn Roberts
I think that as a parent, you have the responsibility to create a peaceful and warm home for your child to come back to.
— Kou Matsuzuki
To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves.
— Hal Edward Runkel
The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.
— Robert Breault
As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.
— Diane Keaton
You might as well learn about sex from Motley Crue than your parents because it's a lot more interesting.
— Nikki Sixx
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
— Bette Davis
Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.
— Wendy Mogel
I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.
— Bill Simmons
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.
— Dawn Fraser
I've always had this thing where I've always seen my parents as people, from a very young age.
— George Clarke
There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.
— Nikki Sixx
The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.
— Jon Appleton
As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.
— Leigh Anne Tuohy
We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.
— Panayiotis Zavos
Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.
— John Goodlad
Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven.
— Max Lucado
However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.
— Jennifer Connelly
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
— Charles Lamb
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
— Henry Rollins
Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?
— Francois Fenelon
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
— Thomas Jefferson
Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. p. 368
— Jennifer Donnelly
We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.
— Barack Obama
And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure.
— Fatima Bint Muhammad
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.
— Billy Kennedy
I'm decorating my parents' house for Christmas ... I hope they find my manger with a baby yeezus in it as funny as I do!
— Lisa Lampanelli
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
— Charles Dickens
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
There is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I once read a survey that explained how moving is as traumatic as divorce, or as the death of a parent.
— S.K. Tremayne
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
— Louis Finkelstein
Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's.
— Eimear McBride
As a gay parent I must flee Russia or lose my children
— Masha Gessen
If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
— Neil Gaiman
That said, there is one thing that I know for sure as a parent of four children and three dogs: I would never want to see any of them in pain.
— Dr. James St.Clair "Dr. J"
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.
— Mike Nichols
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
— Salman Rushdie
I don't know what I'm doing as a parent at all.
— Anna Faris
Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.
— Randy Pausch
One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.
— Glenda Jackson
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
— Jenna Morasca
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
— Anna Quindlen
We will bring your guilt as well. You wouldn't have escaped it anyway. It is a parent's gift.
— Christopher Moore
Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
— George Osborne
As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
— Melinda Gates
My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.
— Polly Berrien Berends
Working models can be altered in negative directions as well by family changes such as divorce or a parent's illness,
— Douglas Davies
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
— Oscar Wilde
