Top 1200 Losing A Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

They're my instructors, and every parent will understand that.

I am doing everything I can to be a great parent.

A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

Her feelings she hides Her dreams she can't find She's losing her mind She's falling behind She can't find her place She's losing her faith She's falling from grace She's all over the place

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

Being a parent is very important to me.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

I am not a team player, including my inadequacies as a parent.

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

I was one of six kids in a single-parent household.

I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.

Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.

Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

When you become a parent, you start loving diapers.

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you start feeling separate from existence the fear of death arises because then death seems to be dangerous. You will no longer be separate; what will happen to your ego, your personality? And you have cultivated the personality with such care, with such great effort; you have polished it your whole life, and death will come and destroy it

Of course, when you're a parent, you can never really be sick.

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

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

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

I think it teaches you humility and love being a parent.

When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

It's a different kind of grief when you lose a parent.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Nobody wants to be a bad parent.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.