Quotes about parent
parent forgiving adults
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else. Douglas Kennedy
parent over-you allowance
My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance. Amy Childs
parenting motherhood cuddling
~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~ Amanda Peet
parenting inspire parenthood
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. Alvin Toffler
parent pay way
Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money. Anjelica Huston
parent sacred maintaining
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status. Andrew Vachss
parent said found
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did. Andrew Young
parent pairs harmony
My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony. Anchee Min
parent want folks
Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules. Chuck Palahniuk
parenting opiates parenthood
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
parent choices firsts
Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing. Angelina Jolie
parent legacy culture
Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion. Amos Oz
parent scales western
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
parent matter bigs
I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens. Ally Condie
parent single-parent prepared
I was not prepared to live as a single parent. Annette Funicello
parent being-a-parent
Being a parent is amazing. Angela Kinsey
parent littles rebel
When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel. Amy Grant
parent asian honest
To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting. Amy Chua
parent size fit
Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.
parent knows
I don't know what I'm doing as a parent at all. Anna Faris
parent embarrassing difficult
My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about Anita Hill
parent approval realizing
I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature. Andrew Stanton
parenthood stranger catapults
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, Andrew Solomon
parent honest poor
I was born to poor because of honest parents. Ambrose Bierce
parent taught culture
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. Alice Walker
parent citizens american-citizens
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American. Ana Castillo
parent begets
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock. Aeschylus
parents regardless school staff start students teachers work
What I think is really important is that parents, students and staff should know, regardless of the work to be done, school will start on Sept. 1 and teachers will be ready,
parent attention world
One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours. Alex Kingston
parent robots doe
The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow? E. O. Wilson
parent example kind
The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example. Drew Barrymore
parent lots-of-money
My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could. Dorothy Hamill
parent sloth sin
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest. Dorothy L. Sayers