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I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
Spike Jonze

Memory, Childhood, Connection

I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
Jamal Lewis

Life, Mistakes, Care

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.
Julie Christie

Good, Mother, Almost

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
Joan Blades

Purpose, Mothers, Ability

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
Kate Winslet

Her, Fair, Sister

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
John Woolman

Good, Great, Wise

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster

Education, Children, May

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
Joseph Lancaster

Children, Him, Religious

You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.
Raekwon

Life, Good, Business

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.
Rosalind Wiseman

Bad, Give, Manners

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
John Strachan

Great, Through, Darkness

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.
Jon Hamm

Life, Whole, Kids

You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.
Lisa Edelstein

Life, Children, Parents

It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.
Joan Cusack

Love, Marriage, Work

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.
Joan Cusack

Life, Money, Single

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
Eric Church

Experience, Justice, Feeling

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.
Nina Bawden

Life, Legal, Child

I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.
Cheryl Hines

Long, Hard, Down

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
James Collins

Teacher, Sports, Book

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
Arianna Huffington

Children, Nothing, Else

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.
Eric McCormack

Power, Important, Actor

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.
Helen Hunt

Time, School, Find

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
James Ellroy

Time, Truth, Hate

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
Cal Thomas

Government, Sometimes, Weren

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Benjamin Spock

Anger, Angry, Children

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
Patrick Ewing

Kids, Wants, Excel

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.
Doug E. Fresh

Age, Family, Powerful

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.
Alice Sebold

Work, Hard, Understand

You can imagine what a dorm room environment is to a CF parent. It's like, oh my God. It's crazy.
Boomer Esiason

God, Crazy, Room

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Robert South

Great, Pleasure, Novelty

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