19 quotes found
“A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer.”
“What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.”
“When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.”
“There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.”
“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 up...”
“The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.”
“Being a parent is amazing.”
“I don't have a fear of becoming a parent, but I do have a fear of taking care of a newborn because they are so tiny and vulnerable.”
“I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of...”
“The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.”
“My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.”
“What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a pa...”
“I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.”
“There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.”
“The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.”
“Next to God thy parents.”
“I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.”
