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Parent Quotes

On showing up, day after day, for someone else's growing up.

Parenting here is framed less as a title and more as an ongoing action: showing up and staying present, including for foster children who aren't legally your own. A few lines reflect on how a parent's own unfinished history shapes the job. See Child quotes for more on raising kids.

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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

Quotes by Aeschylus

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It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

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Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

Quotes by Adam Mansbach

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The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

Quotes by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Being Quotes

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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Quotes by Yul Vazquez

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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Quotes by Virginia Satir

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In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

Quotes by Virgil Goode

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I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

Quotes by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at...

Quotes by Tim Wise

Child Quotes

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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick...

Quotes by Thurgood Marshall

Other entries look at the long, uneven arc of raising someone, not just the milestones. Related: Children and Life quotes.