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For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me. -- Vinnie Jones
Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new. -- Mariska Hargitay
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
The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink. -- Harlan Coben
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. -- Olivia Wilde
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status. -- Andrew Vachss
Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy. -- Angelina Jolie
Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child. -- Joan Didion
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller. -- Olivia Wilde
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete. -- Edwin Moses
I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature. -- Barbara Block
I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent. -- Francois Arnaud
Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult. -- Craig T. Nelson
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker. -- Philippe Petit
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length. -- Dirk Benedict
Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of a child strengthens and deepens everything. -- Kyle MacLachlan
Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't. -- Meghan Daum
I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable. -- Lindsay Price
I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most. -- Michael Redhill
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality. -- Laurence Fox
My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice. -- Alexandra Guarnaschelli
My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him. -- Christian Camargo
Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story. -- Pete Docter
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous. -- Rachel Sklar
My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents. -- Michael Spence
If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming. -- Leigh Anne Tuohy
The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair. -- Jonah Goldberg
To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. -- John Green
I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful. -- Etgar Keret
There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life. -- Queen Latifah
Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation. -- J. K. Rowling

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