Parent Quotes

I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

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...

Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They're heavy to lift up when they're throwing tantrums.

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

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

I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility of letting your own parents down.

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.

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.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

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.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

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.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

I see parents who bring their kids down because their parents did that to them, instead of reinforcing their gifts, and instilling a sense of what they came to this earth to do.

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three.

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.