Parent Quotes

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.
Carre Otis

Moment, Universe, Child

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
Lauren Graham

Single, Why, Child

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.
Mariska Hargitay

Feelings, Negative, Childhood

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
Tony Dungy

Children, Night, Anyone

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
Herbert Read

Made, Means, Group

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.
Diane Lane

Mistakes, Bad, Partner

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.
Diane Lane

Home, Nice, Present

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
Pauline Hanson

Experience, Mother, Children

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
Diana Ross

Life, Family, Health

Being a parent is very important to me.
Diana Ross

When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
Daniel Johns

Deep, Stuff, Purple

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

Care, Whatever, Both

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

Good, May, Proud

You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
Jodie Foster

Pain, Through, Find

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Red Auerbach

Future, Father, Past

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Lives, Seriously, Takes

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.
Ewan McGregor

Great, Business, Fun

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.
Nikki Reed

Time, Mom, Thankful

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.
William Godwin

Care, Free, Youth

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.
Matt Damon

Wife, Try, Sometimes

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.
Cheryl Ladd

Children, Important, Discipline

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
Blair Underwood

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
J. D. Hayworth

Life, Work, Government

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
Kazuo Ishiguro

Teacher, Person, Become

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
Mayer Hawthorne

Music, Important, Kids

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

Ambition, Often, Though

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.
Bob Seger

Good, Trying, Pretty

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.
David Soul

Children, Path, Role

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
Lee Haney

Kids, Times, Step

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

Life, Good, Selfish

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