Parenting Quotes · Page 105

Experience is the mother of custom.

— Henry Ward Beecher

My parents were hoarders before hoarding was cool

— Jase Robertson

“sister and loose-lipped mother, not to mention”

— Cynthia Hickey

My father worked all the time.

— Michael Bloomberg

“If Vengeance has a mother, her name is Patience.”

— Jay Kristoff

Never paint your wife or your mother.

— George W. Bush

“When does it stop-the longing to be mothered?”

— Emery Lord

My mother's the toughest person I know.

— Brian Flores

The toughest breakup I had to go through was losing my father.

— Jordyn Woods

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

— Jack Adams

I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

— Jane Leeves

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

— Mamata Banerjee

Parents impose their wishes on children, driving them to the brink.

— Manoj Kumar

Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

— Alice Cooper

May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather

— Edward Bannerman Ramsay

“The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.”

— John Milton

What I love most about myself is that I have that same fire and belief that my father had in his eyes.…

— Aditya Narayan

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

— Mira Sorvino

I see parents who want their kid to be better than the kid wants to be. I tell parents to encourage kids…

— Diandra Asbaty

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

— Gulzar

“I live at the end of some interminable corridor which the lucky damned can call hell but which the much unluckier atheists…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

In August of 1989, we arrived in Los Angeles where we had family. With their help, along with that of Jewish resettlement…

— Milana Vayntrub

“A mother shepherds her young birds She fills their mouths and warms their souls Till they are strong and good to fly…

— Mark Kozelek

A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If…

— Gary Oldman

“Perhaps it was something like this that changed the captive children forever; the violence they had endured when they were captured, their…

— Paulette Jiles

“But her voice sounded wistful. It is one of her theories that a woman must never be jealous, never try to hold…

— Dodie Smith

By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women…

— Warren Farrell

“I’m through being cool. Or, more accurately, I’m through entertaining the notion that anybody could even consider the possibility of coolness emanating…

— Anthony Bourdain

“I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give…

— Laura Frantz

I spoke to my parents and my agent a year before Rio. I was like: 'I don't want to do this. I…

— Ellie Simmonds

In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of…

— John Irving

It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once…

— Kelly Corrigan

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

— Horace

“Your mother dresses you funny!”

— Tony Rattigan

I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.

— Jeanne Phillips

A Mother is the heart of the home

— Mother Teresa

“My helper is the heavenly Father.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

— Ann Jillian

My dad has children by four different mothers.

— Alicia Vikander

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

— John Kasich