Quotes with parent

  • There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
  • I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
  • [Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
  • But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
  • I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
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  • Bette Davis Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James A. Froude Fear is the parent of cruelty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Idleness is the parent of psychology.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Addison The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Angela Carter Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Boomer Esiason As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Bush At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Arianna Huffington But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Socrates Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Richard Whately Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Henry Fielding Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • John Ciardi Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Charles Dickens For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Aeschylus For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Juvenal From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Horace Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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