Good Parent Quotes - Page 3

• I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.

  Jeremy Coon

  Kids, Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

  Ezra Miller

  Children, Parent, Curiosity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

  Terry McMillan

  Children, Parent, Vices

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

  Shiv Khera

  Heartache, Giving, Bad Parenting

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• Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Responsibility, Parent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

  David Rockefeller

  People, Parent, Important

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

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• I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

  Niki Caro

  Parent, Filmmaker, Hopefully

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

  Daniel Pearce

  Laughing, Parent, Want

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• We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.

  Robert Reich

  Love, Wise, Growing Up

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• I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Children, Editors

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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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• I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show Nanny 911 occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Children, Regret, Waiting

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• Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

  Mel Carnahan

  Kids, Parenting, Keys

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• The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)

  Gordon Allport

  Science, Long, Goal

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• A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

  Jonas Salk

  Children, Parenting, Wings

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• ...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.

  John of Kronstadt

  Prayer, Children, People

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• Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Good Friend, Parent

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• You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Mean, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.322, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Dream, Believe, Men

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• The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, House, Parent

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Parent, Survival

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• From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

  Sophie Tucker

  Funny, Life, Girl

  In Michael Freedland Sophie (1978) p. 214

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• Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

  Simon Sinek

  Children, Leader, Parent

  "The Paradoxes Of Leadership" by Simon Sinek, www.askmen.com.

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• If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

  Keith Emerson

  Kids, Parent, Happenings

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• Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Husband, Son, Parent

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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