Top 1200 Losing A Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.

There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.

This is the hope of many adolescent girls--to capture a parent's heart with love for them as they are, as people. They reject thenotion of being loved just because they are the child of the parent. They want the parent to fall in love with them all over again, because being new, they deserve a new love.

The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.

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.

I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

I hate losing more than anything. I think losing is something that drives me.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

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.

When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.

Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

It's the worst feeling in the world - losing, and losing in a final on the big stage is even worse.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

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.

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.

You don't give out trophies for losing. Trophies for sucking. That's a communist idea. You don't get a trophy for losing. You get a piece of pizza and you shut up. Trophies for losing? What the hell happened to us?

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

My son's dad is committed, and involved, and amazing. We're actually really good friends. But I think it's dangerous to speak negatively to the child about your ex or the absent parent, because, believe it or not, they learn very quickly who the other parent is. And it's important that they develop their own attitudes and opinions about that other parent based on their experiences, not based on what someone has said about them.

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who lost a parent or whose parent was severely wounded in combat.

Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

I am very blessed to have this experience of being a parent, but do not negate me from this industry because I am a parent.

I always give my all and I don't like losing. In fact, I hate losing.

Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.

In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.

I'm a conscious parent when I believe... a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.

Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

Losing has to be awful. You can never get used to losing. That's one of the biggest downfalls to a lot of teams.

Everything seems to take on a new meaning when you become a parent and you put yourself in the shoes of the parent, not the shoes of the child.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

I was never a warring parent who prejudiced the child against the other parent. We are a family wherein everyone cares for each other.

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.

It is every parent's nightmare when a child is in trouble with the law. As a parent, you can do your best to guide young people, but as adults, they make their own choices and live with the consequences of those decisions.

When I was going through the stuff with my dad and thinking about terms like restraining order and domestic violence, I was really just searching for a way to define what I was going through. I didn't really understand what it meant to disown a parent or not want to have a parent in your life. Even the word parent was confusing to me because my father came into my life so late in my teen years.

As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.

We all know that I failed as a parent. I'll be a way better grandparent than I was a parent, and that's how I would rather leave that.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

The Democrats are losing. And look, folks, I don't mean to beat a dead horse here. I'm not doing anything other than pointing out what's actually factually happening. I'm not drawing any inferences from it. The Democrats are actually losing as themselves. They are losing elections if they are honest about what they want to do. It doesn't surprise me at all that Jon Ossoff would be running around.

I don't think about losing or worry about losing. I'm not afraid to let it go and I don't care if you beat me. If you do, that means you were the better man, but only elite fighters can beat me. There can't be shame in losing because you are up against great competition and there's always that chance.

There was a culture that came out of the self-esteem movement which was don't anybody keep track of the goals. The kids keep track, but nobody keep track of the goals because we don't want the kids to have the experience of losing. And in depriving them losing, thinking it scarred them to lose, we made losing so taboo, so unspeakable, that we instead made losing more scary to kids, not less scary.