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

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents. — Neil Gaiman

My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners. — Matt Bomer

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves. — Ken Osmond

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other. — J.C. Ryle

You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child. — Toni Morrison

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again. — Joan Didion

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

I'm the parent. It's my job to be here for you, not the other way around. — Danielle Younge-Ullman

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare. — Maya Harris

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent. — Ed Stoppard

I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else. — Amelia Warren Tyagi

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. — Samuel Johnson

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent — Elinor Smith

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence. — Elinor Glyn

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow. — Fiona Apple

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds — Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child — Dennis Prager

All that a child needs is a great love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good. — Linus Roache

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life. — Carroll Shelby

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen. — Siddharth Katragadda

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes. — Steve Schirripa

Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good. — Vaddey Ratner

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

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. — Horace

He lied the way a parent lies to you, the good lie that helps you go to sleep. — Rick Yancey

There is always need for good foster parents, people who have room in their homes, the openhearted people. — Antwone Fisher

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child. — Michael Sandel

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

A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child. — Jen Hatmaker

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together. — Hayden Panettiere

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest. — Karl Pilkington

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa. — Terry McMillan

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

If you read to your kids, you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent-time. — Orson Scott Card

No one said parenting was easy,but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard. — Gillian Duce

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good. — Mary Schmich

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

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

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good. — Fred Wilson

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid ... — Lucy Freeman

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can. — Willie Nelson

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

Having children doesn't make you a good parent, it means you had sex. That's all. — Dave Ramsey

I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well. — Negash Ali

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents. — Margaret Thatcher

I basically had the same body when I was 14 and that was weird. But I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky. — Emily Ratajkowski

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog. — John Grogan

A good parent gives their child roots and wings. — Jonas Salk

While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not. — Kara Swisher

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around. — Leigh Newman

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children. — Alain De Botton

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me. — Ozzy Osbourne

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person. — Mark Prior

"These are Thy wondrous works, Parent of good, — Vautier Golding

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

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

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him. — Stephen Leacock

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

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing. — Justin Alcala

Establishing your differences with the mentor is an important part of your self-development, whether he is of the good or bad parent type. — Robert Greene

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

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't. — Timothy Olyphant

If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids. — Keith Emerson

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

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

Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent. — Greg Wise

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