Parenting Quotes · Page 1,372

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is…

— Carlos Castaneda

My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong…

— Celeste Ng

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New…

— Janis Joplin

“She was married now, and suddenly she understood what it was her mother had been trying so hard to tell her on…

— Julia Quinn

“According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I…

— John Irving

Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I…

— Lauren Bacall

“. . . And she said it was a pity, because my father was so “keen”, and what did I care about?…

— Stella Gibbons

Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Long past sunset an old blind woman sat on a camp-stool with her back to the stone wall of the Union of…

— Virginia Woolf

Because my parents were illegal, they couldn't trust anybody. They were always nervous. A neighbor could be like, 'These people are making…

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later…

— Marc Veasey

My father worked for Unilever, running a mass-spectrometry lab - mass spectrometry is a process for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules,…

— David Baddiel

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said,…

— Rita Rudner

The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When it comes to my own makeup, I like to look fresh, clean, and well-rested-nothing too crazy. My mother really introduced me…

— Phoebe Tonkin

When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just…

— Nicholas Sparks

My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show…

— Stanley R. Jaffe

“We do not believe that the heavens are sealed over our heads, but that the same Father who loved and cherished the…

— George Albert Smith

I was a swimmer growing up, which meant being in the pool at 5 A.M. You get used to it. You get…

— Teddy Sears

I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an…

— Alissa Quart

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed…

— Lee Haney

“Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother and even such a small creature as I finds an intimate place in…

— Mary Evelyn Tucker

We used to have prawn tempura: that was my mother's favourite dish. But she had to go out to work instead of…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs…

— Alison Gopnik

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my…

— Will Rogers

“She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them…

— Khaled Hosseini

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers,…

— Bible

My job gives me the permission to ask really great questions, like, 'Are you sure you're not pissed at him?' or, 'Is…

— Mel Robbins

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language…

— Steven Pinker

“these fond parents were not blind to the value of education it was that they realized only its external value. That is…

— Ivan Goncharov

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day…

— Larry Fitzgerald

Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they…

— Anonymous

“So many of us had to leave. But every single one of us wishes we hadn’t had to. Every single one of…

— David Levithan

Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“Lord, we live in a world where violence thrives and the plight of the innocent is often overlooked. Precious peace making Father…

— David Holdsworth

“Where do I belong?” “With me,” my mother and Galen say in unison. They exchange hard glares. Galen locks his jaw. “I’m…

— Anna Banks

“O God, our Eternal Father, as Thy servant I bow before Thee in prayer in behalf of these young people scattered over…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental…

— Jules Henry

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot…

— Louise Erdrich