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My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents. — Edward Brooke

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates. — Simon Sinek

My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences. — Tim Kimmel

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me ... and no one showed up. — Rodney Dangerfield

I was one of six kids in a single-parent household. — America Ferrera

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

We die a day at a time — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me. — Val Kilmer

The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa ... Write it down! — Dave Attell

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent. — Estelle

It is impossible to effectively parent from the driver's seat of a minivan. — Jim Berg

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe. — Gail Parent

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. — Slavenka Drakulic

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy. — Ariel Pink

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly. — Noel Whittaker

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father. — Alan King

Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'. — Tim Bajarin

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners. — Rosalind Wiseman

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected. — John Goodlad

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits. — Bob Harper

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head. — J.K. Rowling

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child. — Bill Cosby

At work, you're replaceable ... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable. — Maria Shriver

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

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids. — Dwyane Wade

It's a good thing my parents named me Jon because that's what everyone calls me. — Jon Foreman

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people. — Kanye West

In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. — P. J. O'Rourke

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is. — Sarah Jessica Parker

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. — C. G. Jung

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou. — Edward Dyer

There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child. — Asa Don Brown

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

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life. — Warren Farrell

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent. — Naveen Andrews

I have always been motivated by a greater good. As a child, I was taught by my parents to be good and to do good at all times and in all ways! — James May

There is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school. — Flea

There isn't anything a parent won't do for her child. There is no limit on love. — Adriana Trigiani

This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake. — Mark Twain

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. — Bette Davis

An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day. — Don Kardong

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin. — Charles Spurgeon

If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child. — John S.C. Abbott

Education is the second food a parent can give a child. — Uzoma Nnadi

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt. — Gail Parent

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. — Stephen King

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. — Red Auerbach

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see. — Robert Charles Wilson

Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are. — Timothy Olyphant

Life is love, a gift from god and parent, death is gratitude for a new dimension — Masaru Emoto

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys. — Joe Lando

In that moment, I'm thankful I'm not a parent and I wonder if I ever will be. What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them. — Jennifer Niven

Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. p. 368 — Jennifer Donnelly

being a doctor was a snap compared to being a single parent. — Kristin Hannah

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

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

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent. — Clive Owen

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life. — Peter Block

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy. — Angelina Jolie

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me. — Monica Denise Brown

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new. — Mariska Hargitay

We have said that Athos loved d'Artagnan like a child, and this somber and inflexible personage felt the anxiety of a parent for the young man. — Alexandre Dumas

If an album or a video game exerts more influence on your child's mind, then you must ask yourself: what kind of a parent are you? — Lourd Ernest H. De Veyra

It takes a lot to become a foster parent. — Rosie O'Donnell

The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it! — Carol Leifer

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event. — Erich Fromm

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

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent. — Dave Pelzer

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one. — Twyla Tharp

Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around. — Cody McFadyen

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable. — Milton Sapirstein

As a gay parent I must flee Russia or lose my children — Masha Gessen

A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son. — Tommy Bowden

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them. — Chuck Palahniuk

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. — Nick Bostrom

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself. — Lauren Miller

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child. — Jean Sasson

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents. — Woody Allen

A child from a parent who self-fertilized would be like a clone of the parent with severe genetic damage. — Randall Munroe

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals. — Dennis Prager

We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent. — Wendy Mogel

I think it's important to have a happy parent. — Gloria Estefan

Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future."
Cooper Interstellar — Steven Stennett

Nobody is free ... Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons. — Ted Simon

I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents. — Bill Maher

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make. — Jennie Garth

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

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here. — Heather Locklear

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! — P. J. O'Rourke

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. — Penelope Ward

Hope is the parent of Faith. — C. A. Bartol

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

They fought like champions.
For a minute.
Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent. — Markus Zusak

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. — Dave Barry