Being A Parent Quotes - Page 2

• The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

  Walt Disney

  Children, Parenting, Evil

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

  Bill Ayers

  Kids, Parenting, Compassion

  "An Unconditional Embrace". Interview with Gabriel Lyon, www.tolerance.org. Spring 1998.

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Patience, Baby, Funny Inspirational

  64 Copy quote

• Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

  Stephen King

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “Christine”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

  David O. McKay

  Parent, Family And Friends, Given

  60 Copy quote

• A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.

  Robert Breault

  Mother, Single Mom, Love Is

  21 Copy quote

• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Arrows

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

  Dee Snider

  Parent, Reasonable, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

  Kerri Walsh

  Parent, Challenges, World

  18 Copy quote

• There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

  Marlee Matlin

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  7 Copy quote

• Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

  Frank Pittman

  Men, Perfect Parents, Being A Father

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Parent, Being A Father

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It started with a simple ring,
  You became husband and wife,
  You progressed to being parents
  And you're still best friends for life.

  John Walter Bratton

  Anniversary, Husband, Simple

  21 Copy quote

• For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

  Adrian Tomine

  Children, Parent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Children, Heart, Parenting

  12 Copy quote

• Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them in much the way I remember my mom: as loving and kind.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Mom, Children, Parent

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

  Taylor Hanson

  Jobs, Ideas, Young Parents

  "Hanson on Music, Fatherhood & the Importance of Arts Education Hanson on Music, Fatherhood & the Importance of Arts Education". Parenting.com Interview, www.parenting.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

  Alice Domurat Dreger

  Boys, Hair, Long

  4 Copy quote

• We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.

  Judith Viorst

  Children, Parent, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

  Etgar Keret

  Children, Parent, Unhappy

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

  Timothy Carey

  Children, Parent, Want

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would say, being a parent is what makes me vulnerable. Loving someone so much it scares you. Knowing you'd do anything for them and then realizing there will come a time when you have to loosen the reins and let them figure it out on their own, and then trusting that you/they are making the right decisions.

  Beth Riesgraf

  Knowing, Loving Someone, Decision

  7 Copy quote

• I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Ambition, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Parent, Balance, Musician

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source