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Parent Quotes

Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent.

Good Woman People Parent Two People

No one likes a pushy parent, and, 'pride' being one of the seven deadly sins, I needed to tread very carefully when creating a show about my eldest son, Tom, better known as Peter Parker and even better known as Marvel's new 'Spider-Man.'

Dominic Holland

Son Pride Parent Better Creating

There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

Malorie Blackman

Children History Child Saying Parent

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

Parenting People Parent Advice You

I have so many peers who say, 'I need to get away from my parents,' because even though they love the business and they love their parents, they feel like they are letting their parents down if they don't work to the bone. As a parent, you should be the safe place.

Work Love Business Parents Parent

No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

Child Doctor Parent Fail Call Fever

Our father always made us work. I think that's the greatest thing a parent could ever do.

Work Father Think Parent Always Us

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

Dee Bradley Baker

Good Hope Evil Parent Want Triumph

I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

Experience Think Parent Manifest Who

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Me Think Parent Better Something

Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.

Family Pain Child Parent Feel Loss

There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.

Daughter Tough Parent Someone Always

We must do our part to make ourselves visible to the world. Let everyone see that being a queer parent of color is normal and happening right next door to them.

Door World Color Parent Right See

I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.

Father Child Parent Born First Child

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Parent You Know Mean Daughters

I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.

Safety World Think Parent Doing You

Millions of cats are in shelters across the country waiting for a loving parent or family to bring them home.

Family Home Cats Waiting Parent

I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.

Work Parenting Writing Think Parent

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

Elizabeth Edwards

Happy Child Parent Through Gone

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

Mom Growing Up Parent Picture Single

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

Myself Parent Corruption Person Want

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

Jennifer Lawrence

Care Parent Take Care You Go Want

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

Learning Good End Parent Easy How

Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn't know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that.

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