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Parent Quotes

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

Parenting Parent You Down Want Out

Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

Dog Parenting Joy Problems Parent

When you are the parent of someone who is a chronic pain sufferer, you end up creating these binders for all of the hospital stays so you can keep track of every visit and any new thing that comes out.

Pain End Parent Someone You New

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

God Crazy Parent Environment You Oh

One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

Age Time World Think Parent Place

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

Parent Who Resort

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Good Son Best Parents Parent You

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

Parent Sure Means Fully

Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.

Relationship Great Parents Parent

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Mother Me Parent Kind Became

If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

Decision School Parent Go Contract

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

Parent Lonely Lose Last Your Very

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

Wife Red Me Parent Sometimes Try

Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.

Alain de Botton

Love Child End Parent Loved Long

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

Anne-Marie Duff

Love Challenge Baby Think Parent

I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What? Who am I?' It's the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It's sweet.

Girl Son Me Sweet Doctor Parent

Bindi's really, you know, got her own goals and aspirations, and if I can nurture what Bindi loves, then I think I'm being a good parent. Because Bindi's got a natural love for wildlife, I think that will be part of what we're nurturing.

Love Good Goals Think Parent You

Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.

Life Me Parent Understand Never Kid

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

Michael Ian Black

Future Hope Pain Tears Parent

I'm a total fangirl for Nancy Meyers. I love all her movies - 'Something's Gotta Give,' 'Father of the Bride,' 'The Parent Trap,' etc. I also love Woody Allen - 'Annie Hall' and 'Manhattan' are my favorites.

Love Father Parent Bride Movies Her

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Father Future Past Child Parent

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Polly Berrien Berends

Child Listening Think Parent Alive

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Love Child Tough Parent You Her

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

Parent You Actor Being Lot

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