Top 1200 Foster Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

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

Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other. These stances are not abstract rules but tangible practices that must be renewed each time we are in groups. They are essentially commitments and attitudes that foster collaboration and positive collective action.

I think co-working spaces, incubators, and accelerators outside of the Bay Area do a lot to foster a local startup scene - which is really important for early founders, but I also think that exposure to the Bay Area is extremely valuable for startups.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.

As far as being a parent, my view is no one is perfect, and what is important is that your children know you are there for them when they need you.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.

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

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.

A co-founder is like being somebody's parent: You want to make sure your offspring thrive.

It's difficult. I'm a single parent now, and I'm having such a battle to see my kids on a daily basis. It's so hard.

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

In my spare time, I volunteer at my daughters' schools so I can stay involved with the activities and parent/teacher community.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Like every parent, I cannot rest easy until my children are home safe at night.

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China.

I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

If your child has something creative they really want to do, it's up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.

A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

There's always been a lot of interest in the tech community about how to foster innovation and creativity - both within a company but also in the ecosystem of a tech cluster. In both cases, creating opportunities for people who don't encounter each other normally to meet and talk is key.

I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.

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

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

I always knew I wanted to have children and that I'd be a great parent because I feel that's one of the reasons I was born, almost.

Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.

The play of Hillary Clinton is to do exactly what she did with Whitewater, with the conspiracy theories about Vince Foster's suicide, with the conspiracy theory that Clinton Foundation donations somehow went to the Russians to open a Nickel mine in Canada, this is all nonsense. This stuff has been going on for 30 years.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.