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The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.
— Mother Teresa
Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
— Simon Sinek
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
As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
— Alan King
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.
— Nicholas Sparks
I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married. But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.
— Gwen Stefani
Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.
— John Goodlad
It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn't be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.
— Jess C. Scott
To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.
— Michelle Obama
A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent.
— Gary Edward Gedall
A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.
— Willa Holland
I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.
— Molly Crabapple
There is no greater love than a maker's for the things she makes. Especially when they grow to be something she never imagined.
— Hannu Rajaniemi
I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.
— Dwyane Wade
To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.
— Pamela Druckerman
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
— Gertrude Stein
Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.
— Steve Schirripa
My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.
— Emo Philips
By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.
— Billy Kennedy
Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.
— Laura Lippman
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.
— Dana Gould
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
— Don Marquis
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.
— Stephen R. Covey
A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.
— Gloria Estefan
I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.
— Doug Stanhope
I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.
— Emily VanCamp
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent ... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.
— Nicholas A. Christakis
Isn't that an odd thing for a parent to wish for a child? That he would be less than what he is?
— Tracy Guzeman
I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.
— Johann Lamont
Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.
— Jessi Klein
I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
— Karl Pilkington
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.
— Olivia Wilde
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
— Thomas A. Bailey
A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.
— Anatole Broyard
I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.
— Richard Pryor
You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.
— Joe Walsh
No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.
— Jennifer Garner
A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.
— William J. Clinton
Well, the hardest thing about being a parent is recalibration. The better you are at it, the better you will be." At
— Hanya Yanagihara
I'm not a parent yet, but I feel like a kid needs to be loved.
— Jennifer Westfeldt
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
— Margaret Fuller
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.
— John S.C. Abbott
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
— Oscar Wilde
Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
— Rupert Everett
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
— William Watson Purkey
Marital psychological abuse suffered by a parent can never be understood by disrespectful, ungrateful, growing, biased, brainwashed children.
— Angelica Hopes
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
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
Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.
— Timothy Olyphant
This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.
— Mark Twain
A child from a parent who self-fertilized would be like a clone of the parent with severe genetic damage.
— Randall Munroe
With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.
— Heather Locklear
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
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
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
To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves.
— Hal Edward Runkel
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
My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.
— Mark Prior
Really, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days.
— Enrique Iglesias
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
If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ...
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer.
— Abhijit Naskar
If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.
— Geoffrey Canada
I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
— Daniel Radcliffe
I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.
— Rashida Jones
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
— Danny McBride
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
— Salman Rushdie
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
— Daniel Webster
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
If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.
— Warren Mundine
She had a brother. Yet she had claimed she'd be alone if the camp sorted her by her godly parent.
— Rick Riordan
I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."
— Kelly Ripa
