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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
Rock is always about rebelling against the parents.
— D'arcy Wretzky
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
Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.
— Stuart Duncan
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
To lead solely on the behalf of those being led is the utter pinnacle of fatherhood, and it is sad that so few ever stand on the summit.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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
As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
— Alan King
We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.
— Ethan Nadelmann
My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.
— Anchee Min
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
— J.K. Rowling
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
— Richard Dawkins
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
If parents would only realize how they bore their children.
— George Bernard Shaw
My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.
— Kanye West
When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.
— Dan Ariely
God put the wiggle in children and our job as parent-educators is to work with it, not take it out of them.
— Pamela Read Von Gohren
In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I went home and they seemed ... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of some Nazi camp or something.
— Sheena Iyengar
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
— Twyla Tharp
I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
— Bernadette Devlin
I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.
— Tony Randall
Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents.
— Frank Zappa
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
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
— Louis Finkelstein
Hope is the parent of Faith.
— C. A. Bartol
The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
— P. J. O'Rourke
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
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
I think it's important to have a happy parent.
— Gloria Estefan
I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.
— John Edwards
Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future." Cooper Interstellar — Steven Stennett
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
Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.
— Margaret Thatcher
Nobody is free ... Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.
— Ted Simon
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
Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.
— Jean Sasson
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
Save the children of the World from their acidic lifestyles and diets and their acidic parents who are feeding them.
— Robert O. Young
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
I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.
— Kristen Stewart
Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.
— Nicole Richie
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.
— Nick Bostrom
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
The streets was basically my parents.
— Bernard Hopkins
Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.
— Donna Rice Hughes
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
— Marco Rubio
In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all..
— Wm. Paul Young
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
I leave my parents here behindAnd all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
— Molly Ringwald
Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.
— Wendy Mogel
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
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
Too much alcohol hampers people's ability to parent. That's why I've chosen to remain childless.
— Kyra Davis
Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants.
— Amity Shlaes
It takes a lot to become a foster parent.
— Rosie O'Donnell
My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people
— Patrice Motsepe
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
— Erich Fromm
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
— Robert Breault
Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.
— Mariska Hargitay
Believing that your parents are always right.
— Paulo Coelho
I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.
— Charles Barkley
I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.
— Doug Stanhope
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
Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
