Being A Parent Quotes - Page 4

• 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

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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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• 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

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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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• 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

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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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• 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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• If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent.

  Hugh Jackman

  Running, Kids, Exercise

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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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• 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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• When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Parent, Towns, Born

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• Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Giving, Parent, Doe

  "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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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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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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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• 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

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• I was pretty much a single-father for most of my daughter India's life. Looking back, were there things I could've done better? Yes, but I'm still pretty proud of myself for having raised such an amazing individual. Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

  Eric Benet

  Daughter, Blessing, Parent

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The love of a child is different from any other type of love on the planet. And being loved by your children is a love that is immense. I'm always so overwhelmed by how much my children love me. I think the best part of being a parent is feeling the love of a child.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The thing I like the best, especially being a parent of so many kids, Is that they're all so different. You love them all equally, but they're all so different from each other and that's the cool thing, to see their personalities start to develop and see how unique and different they all are and to be able to love them in their own unique ways. It's really, really, really special.

  Nick Lachey

  Kids, Unique, Personality

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body instinctually yielded to the needs of this growing being, and I had no choice but to embrace what was happening and all that lay ahead, even if I was afraid and uncertain. So, while being a parent has made writing more challenging, it has also made being a writer more certain. There's no room to procrastinate; there is to time for fear.

  Robin Beth Schaer

  Writing, Parent, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

  Nick Cave

  Parent, Horrible Person, Limits

  "Feelings are a Bourgeois luxury". Interview with Lindsay Baker, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2003.

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• Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

  Ani DiFranco

  Self, Years, Parent

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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