Definition of Parent

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Definition of Parent
	Parent One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice. Related Definitions: As, Author, Begetter, Cause, Father, Forth, Idleness, Is, Mother, Of, Offspring, One, Or, Parent, Source, That, The, Vice, Which, Who

Parent Quotations

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger Woods

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

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
Dave Barry

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Parent Translations

parent in Afrikaans is ouer
parent in Dutch is ouder
parent in German is parent, Elternteil, Eltern, Elternteil
parent in Latin is parens
parent in Portuguese is pai

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