Good Parent Quotes - Page 2

• Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Children, Freedom

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

  Lauren Holly

  Selfish, Parent, Looks

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• Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

  Robert Breault

  Sacrifice, Effort, Parent

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• If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Years, Tree

  Letter to M. Francais, 1875.

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• I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

  Naveen Andrews

  Thinking, Parent, Proud

  "I was seen as either a junkie or a drunk". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2008.

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• The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly - without judgment, without need or fear, without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen, the way a good parent listens to a child

  David Bayles

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Believe, Book

  "Interview: Julie Andrews Reflects on Writing, Reading, Libraries, and Film". Interview with Leonard Kniffel, americanlibrariesmagazine.org.

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• being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Strong, Giving, Parent

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• If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

  Liane Moriarty

  Children, Good Luck, Parent

  Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• I know gay parents, and I support them and their families. They are good parents and loving families.

  Juan Pablo Galavis

  Gay, Support, Parent

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• The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Girlfriend, Cousin, Motivation

  "Mythical Proportions: An Exclusive Interview With Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson". Interview with Matt Tuthill, www.muscleandfitness.com.

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• I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves. The parents can't come home from work and turn on the TV. That's not being a good parent.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Home, School, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, Father, Decision

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2004). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

  Amy Chua

  Strong, Kids, Thinking

  "Amy Chua Responds to 'Chinese Mothers' Controversy" by Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2011.

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• I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking, Parent, Honest

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

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• Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

  "Madonna to Anderson Cooper: Shedding a new ray of light on art and life". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2013.

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• These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

  John Milton

  Parent, Parenthood, Glorious

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.210

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• I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dream, Children, Thinking

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• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  Fiona Apple

  Parent, Sometimes, Grows

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• Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit.

  Stephen Reinhardt

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

  Jennifer Garner

  Grateful, Parent, Matter

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• The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

  Alain de Botton

  Children, Parent, Mind

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2013

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• My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born in the '40s. They were young adults before the '60s even happened, and married, and already having kids. But by the time we were adolescents in the '70s, the whole culture was screaming at parents, "You're a good parent if you're open with your kids about sex." They attempted to be open with us about sex, and it made them want to die, and consequently, it made us want to die.

  Dan Savage

  Mom, Sex, Dad

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

  Michael Stipe

  Parent, Compromise, Good Boy

  Source: thequietus.com

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