(noun) One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."
"People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents."
"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."
"The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
"To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
"Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being."
"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."
"Is there anything more important than a child?"
"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."