Bette Davis Quotes

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

That undeniable love for your child... that's something I totally get. And the bumps in the road, too. Like, any parent that thinks they have a perfect relationship with their child is a liar, or they're just not present.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.