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But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see. — Karen Joy Fowler

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 think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership. — Jada Pinkett Smith

The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa ... Write it down! — Dave Attell

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

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. — Slavenka Drakulic

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them. — Pam Houston

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

Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection. — Shefali Tsabary

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore. — Amy Schumer

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do? — Robert Downey Jr.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be. — Neil Patrick Harris

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take? — E.M. Delafield

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

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent. — Mark Hoppus

If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet. — Ryan Howard

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy. — Boomer Esiason

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids. — Dwyane Wade

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

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

Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do. — Aly Grady

I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have
but the past to parent us? — Kathleen Driskell

[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code. — Bill Clegg

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

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

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get. — Michael Moore

You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them. — Bryce Dallas Howard

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs. — Jessica Alba

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

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? — Alexander Pope

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity. — Ellen G. White

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

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

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

Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here. — Tim Allen

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them — Arnold Bennett

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice. — Eric Church

We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone - Trust God to take care of them. — Stormie O'martian

I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now. — Tom Ford

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

What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you. — Michael Scott

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. — Robert Breault

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy. — Jennifer Lawrence

So, what is the opposite of a "helicopter parent?" I wonder. A subway parent? A Sinking ship parent? A hibernating bear? — Wendy Wunder

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe. — Lucy Corin

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

What God is to the world, parents are to their children. — Philo

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him. — Katharine Hepburn

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through. — Hilary Duff

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. — William Shakespeare

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived — Carl Jung

I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird? — Paul Rudnick

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

Parents test our patience more than anyone else ... Being around them keeps you in check ... that's what keeps you humbled. — Nouman Ali Khan

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives. — John McCain

What I'm saying is that we all hold, in our minds, the ability to create images that would break us in half. — Marc Parent

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting ... old? If I'm ... old, then what is she? — Gail Parent

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

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children. — John Dewey

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it. — Marlee Matlin

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn. — Ted Cruz

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

you already know the majority of what you need to know to be an incredible parent — Mayim Bialik

How could someone who has never lost a parent, a lover, or a best friend have the faintest clue about what any of this means? — Lena Dunham

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. — Gail Parent

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place. — Marc Parent

What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too? — Will Ferrell

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need. — Susan Cain

My parents ingrained in me early on that the perfect score is always something to strive for. I want to win and I want to succeed no matter what. — Andrea Jung

My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.". — Pete Wentz

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

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. — Pericles

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there. — Mercedes Lackey

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. — Jeanette Winterson

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?' — John Cleese

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex. — Robert Benton

I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents. — Ethan Hawke

I don't know what I'm doing as a parent at all. — Anna Faris