Parenting Quotes · Page 136

My father had a shoe factory in a depressed and rough area of New York City called Williamsburg.

— Kenneth Cole

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

— John Adams

My dream is to make my parents happy and experiment as far as characters are concerned.

— Mrunal Thakur

I didn't have any connection with movies except for the fact that my father was an actor.

— Athiya Shetty

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

— Anchee Min

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

— Vicki Baum

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

— Jim Gaffigan

I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

— Dante Hall

My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx…

— Thomas Steinbeck

When its Mothers day, I post on facebook Happy mothers day to all the mothers out there and most of the ones…

— Anonymous

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure…

— Augusto De Luca

“What kind of parent would want their children to have servants?” he asks, disgusted by the idea. “The moment a child thinks…

— Pierce Brown

I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that…

— Tom Junod

In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the…

— Shailene Woodley

“If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were…

— Rachel Kushner

With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been…

— Ken Ono

When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching…

— Zachary Schomburg

A mother cooking exclusively for her child might be preparing just rice and buttermilk, but it will be immensely tasty. Fast food,…

— Ilaiyaraaja

Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I know certainly that my parents sacrificed a lot to come to America, and to... start a new life for their family…

— Jonny Kim

My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM,…

— Tino Sehgal

“there is this distinction between the habitation of those who produce an hundred-fold, and that of those who produce sixty-fold, and that…

— The Church Fathers

The job description of mother is clearly in need of revision. As it stands, the shifts are 24 hours, for a period…

— Mary Blakely

On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.…

— Martin Luther

“It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.”

— Shannon L. Alder

What woman wants to go home with a guy that lives with his mother?

— Dana Perino

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

— Tracy Morgan

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

— Joseph Fischer

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

— Philip Levine

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

— Anonymous

“My father used to say, “a day spent breathing is a good day”

— Raymond E. Feist

Happiness is when your parents are smiling and you are the reason for it.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“Losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to a mother.”

— Savannah Page

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her…

— Robert Benton

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

— Laurence J. Peter

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

— Stanley Crouch

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

— Tiger Woods

The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame

— Anonymous

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

— Danny Strong

I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

— Giancarlo Esposito