Diana Vreeland Quotes

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

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

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

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

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

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

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

Different parents have different standards for their children.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

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.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

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.

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

We all have opinions to what our parents really are, whether they agree or not. I'm sure they would feel the same the other way around.

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

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.