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Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy. -- Oliver Hudson
Parent greatest gift to their children is their bond of love. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Parent must set an example to their children in love, in deeds and in conduct. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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My mother's the most special person in my life ... I consider her my MVP: Most Valuable Parent. -- Alex Rodriguez
When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing. -- Lindsay Lohan
Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou. -- Edward Dyer
Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child. -- Stuart Duncan
This is a Happy Birthday card, Made with lots of love by me It's to a Very Important Parent A VIP... ...and you are she -- John Walter Bratton
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good! -- John Milton
What's done to children, they will do to society. -- Karl A. Menninger
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too... -- Joyce Maynard
Your children need your presence more than your presents. -- Jesse Jackson
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. -- Oscar Wilde
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. -- Benjamin Spock
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. -- Pauline Phillips
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. -- Jane Goodall
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. -- Erma Bombeck
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. -- Haim Ginott
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. -- Bill Cosby
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. -- Barbara Kingsolver
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. -- Josh Billings
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. -- Anne Lamott
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. -- Anne Frank
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. -- Umberto Eco
The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent. -- Frank Pittman
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. -- Benjamin Franklin
People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost. -- Sandra Bullock
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives. -- Susan Sarandon
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. -- Neil Gaiman
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. -- Joyce Maynard
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. -- Edward Albert
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. -- Oscar Wilde
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. -- Virginia Satir
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. -- Marian Wright Edelman
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
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. -- Nikola Tesla
Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent. -- Bob Keeshan
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears. -- Phil McGraw
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
We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. -- Jose Serrano
The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. -- James E. Faust
Given the news we all read or hear about, it's actually made me a stronger parent - I'm not a 'helicopter parent,' but I am very aware of local and world events and want to teach them what's right and wrong. -- Kendra Wilkinson
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
Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is. -- Sean Covey
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
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary. -- Mariella Frostrup
There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?' -- Susan Sullivan
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
No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect. -- Maria Shriver
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
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline. -- Geri Halliwell
Being a parent is amazing. -- Angela Kinsey
Government cannot be your parent. -- Jesse Ventura
History is the third parent. -- Nadeem Aslam
Television is the third parent. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Losing your parent is unlike anything. -- Jenny Lewis
Idleness is the parent of psychology. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything is ideal to its parent. -- Sophocles
Sales is the parent of marketing. -- Eben Pagan
Ignorance is the parent of fear. -- Herman Melville
Fear is the parent of cruelty. -- James Anthony Froude
My mom was a single parent. -- G-Eazy
Hope is the parent of Faith. -- C. A. Bartol
Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. -- Sir Fulke Greville
The suspicious parent makes an artful child. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The mother is the child's supreme parent. -- Havelock Ellis
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. -- Robert South
True love is the parent of humility.... -- William Ellery Channing
Don't just parent your kids, develop them. -- Robin Sharma
Dust is the parent of a star! -- Munia Khan
It is always fragile, being a parent. -- Renee Fleming
Thought is the parent of the deed. -- Thomas Carlyle
Every parent wants to see their kids excel. -- Patrick Ewing
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. -- Aristotle
organization is the religion of the single parent. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The spiritual is the parent of the practical. -- Thomas Carlyle
Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations. -- Marianne Williamson
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God is even in a single parent household. -- Karen Salmansohn
Everyone, archetypally, is a parent to future generations. -- Marianne Williamson
There's never been a parent in my life. -- Shia LaBeouf
I would definitely love to be a parent. -- Kate Walsh
Being a parent is very important to me. -- Diana Ross
Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. -- Peter Gallagher
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. -- Henry Fielding
A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention. -- Wes Fesler
Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence. -- Elinor Glyn
Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. -- Julius Charles Hare
The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal. -- Molly Shannon
There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent. -- Wes Fesler
Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime. -- Oscar Wilde
Every parent can imagine the joys of child abuse. -- Mason Cooley
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
A good parent gives their child roots and wings. -- Jonas Salk
You can't be a legend in your parent's basement. -- Joe Walsh
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children. -- Adele Faber
Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent. -- Emma Donoghue
I think it's important to have a happy parent. -- Gloria Estefan
As a parent you have to do some renunciation. -- Robert Bly
Education is the best gift my parent gave me. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child. -- Dan Quayle
As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father. -- Alan King
Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that. -- Greg Boyle
Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier. -- Poppy Montgomery
Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants. -- Amity Shlaes
A parent has to be silent much of the time. -- Helen Beardsley
My kids are so much better parent than I was. -- Dick Van Dyke
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism -- Thomas Jefferson

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