Parent Quotes - page 4

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents. (Sean Covey)
I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.
Sean Covey
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
Brad Meltzer
I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.
Diane Lane
Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?
James Patterson
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
Dick Bruna
My kids are so much better parent than I was.
Dick Van Dyke
Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.
Eva Amurri
Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
Amy Chua
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!
Emma Donoghue
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have. (Emma Donoghue)
It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.
Candace Bushnell
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
Ann Brashares
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
John Woolman
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.
Madeleine L'Engle
Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.
Mike Myers
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall
The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
Maureen O'Hara
The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.
Maureen O'Hara
No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.
Maria Shriver
I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working. (Alison Moyet)
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
Amanda Donohoe
It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.
Ana Tijoux
It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
Anthony Edwards
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps