Top 1200 Loss Of A Parent Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.

Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

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.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

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)

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.

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.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

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.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

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

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.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

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 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.

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.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.

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.

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.

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

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

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

Mark-to-market losses are not real loss. It's a notional loss.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

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.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

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.

There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss.

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

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

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

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.

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.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

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.

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.

As long as you learn something from a loss, it's not really a loss.

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

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.