Parent Quotes

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Parents, Become

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Joe Manchin

Family, Teacher, Friend

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

Force, Principle, Despotism

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

May, Lose, Both

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush

Life, Time, Husband

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Psychology, Idleness

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
Eminem

Mean, Daughters

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
Virginia Satir

Sad, Parents, Child

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'
Bill Cosby

Success, Fool, Person

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy

Greatest, Children, Blessings

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Friendship, Child

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette Davis

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude, Greatest, Others

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
Mitt Romney

God, History, Greatest

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
Mitt Romney

Education, Good, Future

Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.
Mitt Romney

Today, School, Tomorrow

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall

Teacher, Down, Here

Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
Jennifer Aniston

Family, Good, End

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Thomas Carlyle

Spiritual, Practical

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love, Child, Illusion

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
John Ciardi

Time, Hope, Father

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.
Suze Orman

Life, Child, Partner

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger Woods

Dad, Sports, Fun

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Virginia Satir

Parenting, Past, Her

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
P. J. O'Rourke

Someone, Pretty, Married

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

Good, Writing, Sense

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
Jim DeMint

Mom, Dad, Greatest

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace

Life, Experience, Suffering

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
LeBron James

Hope, Home, Mom

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