Becoming A Parent Quotes

• We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Royal Truths, etc".

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• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

  David Bly

  Family, Inspiring, Success

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• I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

  Umberto Eco

  Fathers Day, Dad, Believe

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

  Frank Pittman

  Men, Perfect Parents, Being A Parent

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

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• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

  Olivia Wilde

  Priorities, Parent, Firsts

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Motherhood and Son Otis: 'He's Amazing in Every Way'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. October 29, 2014.

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• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

  Jon Hamm

  Kids, Doors, Parent

  "Jon Hamm: 'I Stopped Believing in a Storybook Existence a Long Time Ago'" By David Hochman, parade.com. July 28, 2010.

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• The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Parent, Being A Father

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

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• The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Dad, Father

  "Man Enough: Fathers, Sons, and the Search for Masculinity". Book by Frank Pittman, www.today.com. 1993.

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• Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Childhood, Parent, Feelings

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• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Thinking, Shoes

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Motherhood and Son Otis: 'He's Amazing in Every Way'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. October 29, 2014.

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• I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Parent, Trying

  "What Etgar Keret Learned From His Father About Storytelling And Survival". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 5, 2016.

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• There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

  Queen Latifah

  Parent, Next, Becoming

  Source: www.craftychica.com

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• A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

  Andrew Vachss

  Parent, Sacred, Maintaining

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

  Vinnie Jones

  People, Parent, Doe

  "Vinnie Jones: My family life". Interview with Dina Behrman, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.

  Joan Didion

  Dog, Children, People

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• I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.

  Sasha Alexander

  Thinking, Parent, How Precious Life Is

  Source: collider.com

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• Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Focus, Joy

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. July 16, 2003.

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• The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

  Harlan Coben

  Character, Ideas, Parent

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