Quotes of: Good-parent Keyword

How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at each childish ailment, and the children clung to their parents with love and adoration; a few years p...

The Painted Veil

It's hard to look at it like that, isn't it? Because if you can be a better parent than the ones you had, you have to face the fact that your parents had that choice too. If you're not fated to be an awful parent, they weren't either. And," I said fe...

Why Can't I Be You

As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chanc...

Roz Chast

Rachel Dawes: Bruce, I don't suppose there's any way to convince you not to come. Bruce Wayne: Someone at this proceeding should stand for my parents. Rachel Dawes: We all loved your parents, Bruce. What Chill did is unforgivable. Bruce Wayne: Then w...

Batman Begins

The U.S. Census Bureau considers mothers the "designated parent," even when both parents are present in the home. When mothers care for their children, it's "parenting," but when fathers care for their children, the government deems it a "child care ...

Sheryl Sandberg

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Faye Wattleton

My parents never projected their dreams onto me. If they hoped I would be a great pitcher, or political figure, or artist (no chance), they never told me about it. Their view of parenting was to offer love and encourage me to chart my own path.

Decision Points

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The Education of Henry Adams

I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

But, Dad…” She hesitated. “It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that.” Sol managed a smile. “No parent would refuse that, Rachel.

The Fall of Hyperion

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

The Best of Sydney J. Harris

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As ...

Maria Shriver

I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father'...

David Walliams

We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own an...

Chris Pine

Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.

Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.

Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child.

Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing

Think of instinct as an unscientific, unquantifiable tool that can be used along with more concrete evaluations to make a well-rounded decision.

Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing

Being thoughtful about the comfort and needs of the people who work in your home is a characteristic of a great Home Care CEO.

Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing