Best Being A Parent Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

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

Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

I’m not good for you. I don’t know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I’d never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don’t understand

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

It isn’t surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don’t usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.

When I’m writing for a book, it’s much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but, when they’re on the page, people can really get into them. My first two books were aiming to be funnier, but the third was more about deep exploration. Things about being a parent and growing older that I thought would be perfect for a book.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you’re pushed to the limit constantly.

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents’ interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

I think part of being a parent, to love one’s child, is to accept them as they come – not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that’s what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

I think people should be given a test much like driver’s tests as to whether they’re capable of being parents!

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.

That’s the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You’ll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and — in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love — you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?