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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
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
— Karen Joy Fowler
I think that as long as you have one decent parent ... maybe you should consider cutting the poison out of your life.
— Brenna Aubrey
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
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
— Simon Van Booy
Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.
— Graham Kendall
We die a day at a time
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The mildest allegiance was proof one parent was the rightest and the most beloved, and I refused to call the winner and the loser in their war.
— Joshilyn Jackson
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
— Bill Crawford
One survey conducted in 2010 estimated that the average parent spends $6,800 on baby items before a child's first birthday.7.9
— Charles Duhigg
Preparing a child for the world of tomorrow is one of the most important roles a parent plays in a child's life.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
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
Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.
— Bill Cosby
One forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.
— Francine Du Plessix Gray
One death is the parent of a thousand lives
— William Peter Blatty
It was one thing to have a demon for a parent. It was another thing when your father owned a significant portion of Hell's real estate.
— Cassandra Clare
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
— Washington Irving
Birthdays;They never cease to exist, and like birthdays you will never cease to exist in my heart
— Xela Ffonrims
It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.
— Kenneth Oppel
This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.
— Iyanla Vanzant
You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.
— Linus Roache
It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.
— Anna C. Salter
One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.
— Sean Covey
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
— Nora Ephron
We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He'd never met a parent who wanted so desperately to pursue and exact revenge, nor one who seemed quite so capable of doing just that.
— Cindy Skaggs
Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.
— Jarod Kintz
I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.
— Morgan Freeman
What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.
— Martha Finley
My son has one parent who's 50. I want him to have a family of young people, too!
— Sophie B. Hawkins
I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
— Emma Donoghue
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
One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.
— Amy Dickinson
A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.
— Mary Cholmondeley
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
The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.
— Jeffrey Wright
One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
— William J. Clinton
To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
— Malachy McCourt
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.
— Christopher Buckley
Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.
— Sophia Amoruso
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.
— Marilyn Ferguson
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
— Twyla Tharp
There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.
— J. Edgar Hoover
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
One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.
— Glenda Jackson
A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.
— M.F. Moonzajer
My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful.
— Chelsea Peretti
The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.
— Lester Frank Ward
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
— Oscar Wilde
There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
— Salman Rushdie
That said, there is one thing that I know for sure as a parent of four children and three dogs: I would never want to see any of them in pain.
— Dr. James St.Clair "Dr. J"
In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.
— Julianne Moore
One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.
— Timothy Carey
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
— Carl Karcher
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I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.
— John Waters
You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.
— Christian Boltanski
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
Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.
— Wendy Mogel
I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.
— Jane Wagner
I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
— Toni Morrison
I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even the rich people.
— Drew Magary
Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.
— Shere Hite
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
— Don Marquis
Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.
— Kiera Cass
Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.
— Amy Chua
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
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
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
One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.
— Georges St-Pierre
We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.
— Panayiotis Zavos
