Parenting Quotes · Page 148

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do…

— Hilary Duff

My father made me swear that I would never resort to violence in life.

— Manoj Kumar

I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.

— Kelly Rutherford

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

— Louise J. Kaplan

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

— Alan King

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

— Jello Biafra

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

— Princess Diana

I believe that a parents role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

— David Soul

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits,…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when…

— Stephen Sondheim

At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my…

— Jack Bruce

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about…

— Lauren Holly

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the…

— Craig Ferguson

I remember the moment it first hit me that my mother's memory was no longer the extraordinary phenomenon it had been all…

— Carol Thatcher

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which…

— Anonymous

The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was…

— Roger Clemens

“Of all the institutions in their lives, only the Catholic Church has seemed aware of the fact that my mother and father…

— Richard Rodriguez

“If you raise your children to be victims, they’ll be victims as adult. Who do they attack? The elderly, the poor at…

— Colin Flaherty

“Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the…

— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother…

— Marly Youmans

“As he learned more from his father in school he was led to reading every book he could find as long as…

— Sam Wellman

Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I…

— Thomas Gibson

The home should be a place where obedience,peace,love generosity,humility,truth and righteousness reign. Here children should respect their parents. To such a home…

— Zoroastrianism

I get along really well with [my father] now, but I had a terrible time with him in my teenage years. All…

— George Michael

My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

— ASAP Rocky

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

— Alison Bechdel

I feel very proud as a father when my daughter is being recognised for her talent and hard work.

— Johnny Lever

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

— Magic Johnson

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

— Janis Joplin

“They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.”

— Ann Brashares

When I'm always in my room my parents complain. When I go out too much, my parents complain.

— Anonymous

“Where would we be without the success of our mothers?”

— Edna Stewart

As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

— David Harsanyi

It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.

— Drew Magary

“The man called out to Kamara, Dzhikoni’s father. “Would you like to take this camel?”

— Yevgen Azarenkov

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

— Roy L. Smith

“A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed.”

— Solange nicole

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values,

— James O. Freedman

There is nothing like being a mother. The happiness my daughter brings me is like none other.

— Cynthia Bailey

There birds of a different feather, But there gonna flock together

— Adam Lambert