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Parent Quotes

I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and how irresponsible a father could be. So because of that, I didn't want to get married or have kids.

Father Husband Parent Bad Want Get

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

Parent Single Working Single Parent

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

Great Darkness Parent Measure Way

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

Learning Mistakes Child Mom Parent

As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.

Best Happy Child Looking Parent You

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

Child Parent You Kind Weak Take

Ever since I became a parent, time moves far too quickly. My vision always feels like I'm wearing giant kaleidoscope-goggles.

Vision Time Parent Always Far Like

Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

Poppy Montgomery

Me Parent Better Exercise Happier

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.

Stephen Malkmus

Dinner Song Parent You Table More

I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.

Home Happy Husband Parent Just Who

I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.

Children Parent You Want Who Pushy

I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.

Learning I Am Child Parent Rules

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

Child Growing Up Parent Growing Why

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

Child Parent Help Find Talents Give

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

Trisha Yearwood

Me Evil Think Parent Stepmother

Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

Live Best Parent You Circumstances

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Child Parent You Find Admit Will

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

Robert Downey, Jr.

Parent You New Know Even Really

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

Life Father Mother Parent You Adult

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Richard Whately

Memory Curiosity Parent Attention

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

Learning Challenge Parent Right Fail

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Work Day Imagination Parent You See

The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

Children Ideas Cool Parent Always

It's so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the child's viewing to a certain point.

Child Control Parent Feel Watches

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