Quotes About Empathy

Not everyone's a perfect parent, but we do learn, and we grow from that. I'm not trying to be harsh on my family because it does make them sad to think back about how they used to be and some of their choices.

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

You know, I think becoming a parent has really changed the way that I feel impacted by what's going on in the world around me.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

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 don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through.

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.

Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.