Parent Quotes

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I’d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes.

The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it’s called the American dream.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

Before you get married you should meet your fiance’s parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.

And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here.