Parent Quotes - page 2

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens. (Tanya Tucker)
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. View quote
Daniel Webster
I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job. View quote
Doug Stanhope
Better a loving single parent family than a 'conventional' family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. View quote
Moby
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. View quote
Herbert Spencer
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material. View quote
Ramakrishna
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance and the parent of Liberty. View quote
Samuel Johnson
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. View quote
Barbara Bush
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. View quote
Quintilian
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons. (P. G. Wodehouse)
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. View quote
Barbara Walters
Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week. View quote
Temple Grandin
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. View quote
Angela Carter
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous? Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. View quote
Virginia Satir
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes-you'll see. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football.... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport. View quote
Camille Paglia
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. View quote
Margaret Fuller
As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all. (Betty Edwards)
Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent. View quote
Dr. Seuss
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. View quote
Anthony Trollope
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. View quote
Don Marquis
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. View quote
Henry Fielding