Being A Parent Quotes
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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 a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.
— Judy Carter
The best that a parent can be ... A demonstrator ... A consistent, constant demonstrator of being in your own Vortex.
— Esther Hicks
Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
— MaryJanice Davidson
Being a parent is very important to me.
— Diana Ross
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
— Bill Crawford
I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid, I couldn't be vocal in that way.
— Mindy Kaling
Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
— Dee Snider
I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined
— Lisa Kleypas
Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people.
— C. JoyBell C.
Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
— Rosalind Wiseman
Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
— Noel Gallagher
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
Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do.
— Aly Grady
You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.
— Raymond Kelly
Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
— Michael Gove
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
Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.
— Siddharth Katragadda
Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.
— Jarod Kintz
It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Having kids is not the same as being a parent.
— Frank Sonnenberg
Being a parent is amazing.
— Angela Kinsey
Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.
— Michael Josephson
Well, the hardest thing about being a parent is recalibration. The better you are at it, the better you will be." At
— Hanya Yanagihara
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
— Sharon Stone
I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.
— Bill Simmons
I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.
— Dawn Fraser
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
— Peter Eisenman
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
Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.
— Rob Letterman
that is the rub of being a parent. You have infinite capacity to forgive, and infinite capacity to grieve every time your child stumbles." "I
— Molly Jameson
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
— Louis C.K.
I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.
— Shania Twain
If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.
— Jeffrey Wright
I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
— Melissa Etheridge
99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.
— Mark Webber
I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.
— Joy Bryant
I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.
— Reese Witherspoon
Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.
— Robert Breault
Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
— Nick Cave
Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.
— Georgia Holt
All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.
— Tom Brady
It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.
— Johnny Vegas
She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing "single" about a single mom.
— Mandy Hale
No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.
— Elizabeth George
The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children.
— Anonymous
I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
— Dee Snider
I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."
— Kelly Ripa
Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.
— Eric Clapton
It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.
— Kerri Walsh
Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that's always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,
— Fredrik Backman
The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
— Alain De Botton
I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author.
— Bill Maher
Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.
— Sheila Kamerman
Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
— Morton Hunt
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
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
— Robert Charles Wilson
being a doctor was a snap compared to being a single parent.
— Kristin Hannah
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
— Stephen King
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
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
— J. B. Smoove
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.
— Robert Smith
One of the most difficult things about being a parent is that you have to bear the fact that you have to frustrate your child.
— Jennifer Senior
Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
— Eric Church
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
Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.
— Ann Douglas
However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.
— Robert Winston
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
— Charles Lamb
I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.
— Craig Ferguson
It is always fragile, being a parent.
— Renee Fleming
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
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.
— Philippa Perry
Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
— Ron Taffel
Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.
— Nicole Ari Parker
Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.
— Russell Crowe