Quotes about parenting

Every success story has a parent who says, ‘over my dead body.’ Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you’re acting the fool, ‘you know I worry about you sometimes.’

Bill Cosby

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

For customer development to succeed, everyone on the team – from investor or parent company to engineers, marketers and founders – needs to understand and agree that the customer development process is different to its core.

Steve Blank

And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

Plato

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Mary J. Blige

There was a point where I really felt I had ‘penniless divorcee lone parent’ tattooed on my head.

J. K. Rowling

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

LeBron James

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can’t teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They’re their own person.

LeBron James

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode.

Barack Obama

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

LeBron James