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A Parent Is Quotes

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
- Joseph Addison

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
- Louis C K

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
- Stephen King

Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?"
I shook my head.
Tell you what I think," he said, "I think that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
- Stephen King

Hanging out with Sam or any two-year-old is basically one big suicide watch. Their mission is to find one new way after another of offing themselves - piss in an electric socket, lick a pit bull's nose, chase an ice cream truck into traffic - and your job as a parent is to step in before it happens.
- Michael J Fox

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

The hardest thing about being a parent is watching your kids make mistakes. Our instinct is to protect you. But you're right, Deenie. Sometimes we have to step aside and let you make them anyway. The best we can do is be there when you mess up.
- Lisi Harrison

Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child.
- Jarod Kintz

Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.
- Jarod Kintz

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
- Tea Leoni

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
- Laura Linney

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
- Sarah Jessica Parker

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives.
- Susan Sarandon

Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.
- Eric Shanteau

Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It's everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012).
- Jill Smokler

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
- Dee Snider

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
- Ron Taffel

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