Explore Quotes on Parent

Growing up with a parent in the army, I saw firsthand the challenges our service members face when transitioning to new jobs after time in the military.

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

Every parent wants to see their child settle down.

We all know that I failed as a parent. I'll be a way better grandparent than I was a parent, and that's how I would rather leave that.

As a parent, it's your job to discipline your child and make him respect you, because that is essentially protecting them.

I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.

Though I'm a very broad-minded girl, I don't think any parent would appreciate their daughter stripping on-screen.

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that womanhood is valuable.

For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.

As a parent, you're never wrong in your children's eyes.

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.

We have so much poverty in our country. Not every parent can afford to buy their kids all the frills and perks, but teenagers still demand it, and are we responsible for it!

It's difficult to be everything to all people at any given time, whether you're a student, a parent, a boss, an employee, a spouse, an athlete, an artist, a friend in need, an entrepreneur, or a multihyphenate.

I'm a total fangirl for Nancy Meyers. I love all her movies - 'Something's Gotta Give,' 'Father of the Bride,' 'The Parent Trap,' etc. I also love Woody Allen - 'Annie Hall' and 'Manhattan' are my favorites.

I once tried to feed 15 kids on a group holiday. Each parent said pasta with tomato sauce would be a sure-fire hit. But one wanted pasta with no sauce, one wanted sauce without pasta. One could only eat it if the sauce was mixed in with the pasta, which another found repellent.

When you're a parent, you spend time with the baby. You look at the baby's face and envision her future and what you have to do as a parent to make sure she's financially good and that she's comfortable inside of the family and that she's positive and learning every day.

I was the third parent, growing up, and it did make me a very overly responsible adult.

I am a very easy-going father at home - I am more of a friend than a parent.