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Parent Quotes

‘This is f***ing bullsh*t.’ I feel that with religion. I feel that with acting. I feel that with marriage. I feel that with being a parent. I’m constantly filled with doubt, regardless of what I’ve accomplished. It doesn’t mean anything. You still don’t know how to do anything, really.

– Adam Driver

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that’s all you can do.

– Heidi Klum

When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.

– Garik Israelian

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

– Henry Rollins

When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.

– Hamish Bowles

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

– Hosea Ballou

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

– Horace

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy’s little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

– Hugh Grant

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

– Heather Brooke

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

– Henry Fielding

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

– George Borrow

With a parent, it’s always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

– Heather Locklear

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

– Jillian Michaels

When you don’t have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

– Jennifer Lawrence

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

– Joseph Addison

There’s something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

– Jim Gaffigan

I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I’ve made. But I can’t do that. No parent can.

– Judy Blume

I really don’t know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

– Jeff Nichols

If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don’t text; don’t e-mail. Call them on the phone.

– J. K. Simmons

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn’t going to be a real parent if I didn’t quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I’d made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

– Jane Campion

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two’s is the most important thing.

– J. B. Smoove

There was a point where I really felt I had ‘penniless divorcee lone parent’ tattooed on my head.

– J. K. Rowling

My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

I have a child and I’m a parent first of all.

– Izabella Scorupco

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

– J. K. Rowling

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

– Iain Duncan Smith

I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

– Jane Fonda

I can’t tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don’t really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

– John Lasseter

The spark for ‘In Praise of Slowness’ came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

– Carl Honore

When you’re a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

– Celine Dion

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