Top 1200 Losing A Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

It's unacceptable when a parent's hard work isn't enough to pay the bills or go to a doctor.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

Accomplishments of children shine most brightly in the light of a parent's sincere praise.

I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they do that. Anyway, it was always sort of ridiculous, me having anything to do with the youth culture, but now that I'm in my 50s, it's extra-double-ridiculous. They were losing interest in me, and I was losing interest in them. When I went to renegotiate my contract at Rolling Stone, I kind of halfheartedly asked if I could do half the work for half the money, and they asked if I could do two-thirds of the work for half the money. I ran that by my agent, since he can do math.

At the time I became a parent, I was taking on a more active creative role in my industry.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

Being a teenage mum and a single parent hasn't been easy but I wouldn't change it for the world.

In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

My son has one parent who's 50. I want him to have a family of young people, too!

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

When you're trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

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

I think it's quite difficult to follow in your parent's footsteps in the same sport.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

Being a parent, is without any doubt, one of the most difficult things that you can do in life.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

As a parent, I know that the State has no greater responsibility than protecting the safety of our children.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

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 you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.

Unfortunately, when you're a parent and you completely love your child, it can make you act a bit crazy.

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

I always feel it's not a parent's role to either allow or to deny, but merely to guide.

When a child is out of control, he or she needs you, the parent, to make them feel safe.

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.