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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.
— Mark Twain
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
