The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison
ParentSightAlwaysWhomHeThose
There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
Rachel Sklar
ParentFamousPersonSomethingThem
If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.
Hugh Grant
FutureChildParentYouPrincess
I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.
Don Johnson
Little GirlsThinkParentTryMore
Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
P. J. O'Rourke
ParentSomeonePrettyExcellent
The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.
Henry B. Eyring
WorkTimeParentChurchEnoughHelp
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
Dimitar Sasselov
LifeChildParentUniverseLike
A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.
Nancy Gibbs
ParentsParentGradesSummerRisk
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
Gordon Neufeld
EducationChildrenParentsParentGo
It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.
Diane Lane
HomeDrivePresentParentNiceMore
When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
Laura Dern
CareParentYouNothingBecomeGet
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.
George Saunders
TimeGameParentYouFastWant
As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.
Dennis Cardoza
ChildrenMyselfProblemsParentSeen
But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
J. K. Rowling
ParentYouMeetGoingMostEver
When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.
Viola Davis
LifeManParentYouGoSitting
One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.
Fred Rogers
ChildGiftParentUniquenessGifts
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
Deirdre O'Kane
PatienceAppreciateParentYouNeed
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
GoodJobParentImpactOpinions
A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.
Joe Manchin
LifeChildParentRaceSeeLocation
Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
Eric Church
JusticeExperienceWordsParentYou
When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.
Chris Cornell
LifeSimpleParentWorryYouBecome
You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
Karen Duffy
BabyParentYouMatterBecomeGet
It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.
Joan Cusack
WorkLoveGoodMarriageLiveParent
If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.
Emma McLaughlin
LoveChildhoodWorldParentTiger
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