Top 1200 Losing A Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.

History is the third parent.

I don't know what I'm doing as a parent at all.

My mother had a life-altering stroke when I was nineteen and she died when I was twenty-three. I'm now older than my mother when she died and my relationship with her has really changed over these many years. I continue to stay interested in her and I know her differently now. Losing my mother, losing dear friends, is now part of the fabric of my being alive. And the fabric keeps changing, which is interesting.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

You have to have like a bit of amnesia both on the winning side and the losing side of this thing... On the losing side you need to be able to forget a loss to be able to move on and to be successful in your next fight. But on the winning side you need to be able to forget a win so you don't get stuck in this pattern of like, "I'm unstoppable". So there has to be a level of amnesia for a fighter.

I'm a parent, and my kids think I'm an idiot.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

There's never been a parent in my life.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.

organization is the religion of the single parent.

As we look at the chapters of Daniel, we recognize that the words of Daniel 1:21 ring true today: "Thus Daniel continued...." Daniel continued through a culture unlike his own; one that lost its way. Today, you and I are living in a culture that's losing its way. It's good to know that just as in Daniel's day, God is looking for men and women of integrity to help confront in love a culture that's losing its way and to point it back to him.

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.

They [ the government of Puerto Rico] are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be an option, as a last resort, if there is no other resource. But there also need to be measures, changes within the government of Puerto Rico, in the ways that the island's funds are administered, not just to deal with this budget issue, but also to have, to attract the economic growth that is necessary for Puerto Rico to begin to grow economically. They are losing population, and they are losing economically.

I'm pretty proud of the parent that I've become.

Everything is ideal to its parent.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

Being a parent is amazing.

Hope is the parent of Faith.

I'm a parent, I gotta be a super dad.

Sales is the parent of marketing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

True love is the parent of humility.

If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

A parent has to be silent much of the time.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.

As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.

Being a parent is a tiring business.

Snooki is going to be a fun parent.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

Television is the third parent.

Government cannot be your parent.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

My mom was a single parent.

I would definitely love to be a parent.