Being A Parent Quotes - Page 6

• Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

  Ani DiFranco

  Self, Years, Parent

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Parent, Trying

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• We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going to revise our knowledge and reshape their values. There's something very paradoxical and profound about being a parent as opposed to parenting. We put in all this effort and energy not so that we can shape a child of a particular sort, but so that all sorts of possibilities can happen in the future.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Character, Profound

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.

  Rob Letterman

  Kids, Dvds, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• It's difficult to parent one kid, let alone five! It's insane. It's this strange, overwhelming mess that I would not trade for anything. I think it's more difficult in New York City. It's not like we can hop in the minivan and go somewhere. I don't own a car. It's chaos anywhere. Being a parent is difficult. Being a son and a daughter is difficult. It's a human relationship.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Daughter, Kids, Son

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

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• It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.

  Peg Bracken

  Children, Sight, Parent

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler

  Samuel Morse

  Character, Parent, Moral

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• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Cutting, Parenting

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• And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

  Thomas Keneally

  Educational, Parent, Church

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• I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

  Joy Bryant

  Children, Parent, Plight

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• There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Parent, Comedian

  "'Fat' Dad Jim Gaffigan On Kids, Comedy And Apartment Living". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

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• A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

  Bart Decrem

  Parent, Founders, Involved

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

  Maurice Sendak

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Children, Healing, Night

  "Musician Melissa Etheridge". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2010.

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Educational, Reality

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• To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...The security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child's feeling secure about himself.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Parent, Feelings

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• I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to and the men who have read my books - I've been surprised by this actually - have a fierce attachment to being parents and to being fathers. And just as we, a lot of women I know, want this, men too want to pass down what they have to pass down.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Country, Mother, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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