If, during childhood, you were fortunate to have a parent who drilled into you, 'You can be anything you want to be if you try hard enough at it,' and then supported you in actions, that is something you take with you all your life.
Mark Goulston
LifeChildhoodParentEnoughYou
I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.
Rosie O'Donnell
ChildrenI AmMeThinkParentGay
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
SelflessParentSomeoneYouWantUp
Being a mother makes everything more urgent.
Marianne Williamson
PerspectiveThoughtsParentYouWill
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno
LoveLove IsChildParentIllusion
I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.
Benjamin Bratt
ChildrenQualityAgingThinkParent
Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.
Lysander Spooner
ChildLawSlaveryParentWrongBeen
I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.
Michael Sheen
HeartExperienceThinkParentYou
I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
ChildrenTimeParentOverYears
The parent characters that I portray are Indian because I grew up in an Indian household. Having said that, I feel like people of all cultures would relate to those parents.
Lilly Singh
ParentsPeopleParentFeelSaidUp
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.
Lucy Larcom
ParentsFeetParentPlayMindsSit
You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
Tanya Tucker
LifeParentYouKnowSayWill
Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.
Lena Headey
ColdParentSometimesBizarreThing
I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.
Joy Bryant
ChildrenParentI CanKnowSayOwn
Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
Sam Shepard
FatherParentSomeoneYouLookHand
My decision has been that anyone who breaks the law will be prosecuted. If you're a parent or you're a single person or you happen to have a family, if you cross between the ports of entry, we will refer you for prosecution. You've broken U.S. law.
Kirstjen Nielsen
FamilyDecisionBrokenLawParent
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
Joseph Lancaster
ChildrenThinkParentHimSincerity
I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
Rachael Ray
WorkDogTimeJobMomParent
The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
James Ellroy
MotherTruthTimeHateParentLose
When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
WorkChildrenHappyParentEasyYou
Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
Patrick Ewing
ParentSeeExcelKidsWantsEvery
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
LoveParentingParentsParentKnow
I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.
Don Yaeger
MeParentSaidDoneTalkMore
I cannot deny that there are unavoidable, day-to-day tradeoffs between being a parent and a professional. There are only so many hours in a day.
Nathan Blecharczyk
DayParentProfessionalBeingCannot
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