Being A Parent Quotes - Page 3

• It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

  Ben Berger

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Parenting, Reality

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Parenting, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 21, 2011

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• I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

  Dee Snider

  Children, Parent

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

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• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  Patricia Richardson

  Decision, Parent, Balance

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

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• I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Party, School

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  Giving Up, Parent, Needs

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

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• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

  Joyce Maynard

  Family, Mother, Children

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

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• I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Love Is, Thinking, Knowing

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• I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  Rose Kennedy

  Children, Women, Parenting

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• But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

  LeBron James

  Running, Mistake, Home

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• 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

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• I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Father, Responsibility, Thinking

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• If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

  Bette Davis

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

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• One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

  Jim DeMint

  Mom, Fathers Day, Dad

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

  Adrian Tomine

  Children, Parent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have...

  Emma Donoghue

  Parent, Normal, Emotion

  "Frog Music review - Emma Donoghue's sophisticated whodunnit" by Alex Preston, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2014.

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• I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

  Thom Yorke

  Taken, Giving, Parent

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• Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.

  Noel Gallagher

  Parent, Months, Nine

  "The Gallagher interview in full". www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2005.

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• Being a parent is amazing.

  Angela Kinsey

  Parent

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