Parenting Quotes · Page 152

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

— Thomas Brooks

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

— Bernie Worrell

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

— Alexandra Kerry

Theres a big diffrence between you having money and your parents having money. Dont get it twisted.

— Anonymous

I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'

— Tab Hunter

“Father, we are all Your children, the seeds of Abraham, looking up, claiming Your peace.”

— Guideposts

My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

— James Kidd

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

— Sark

My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

— Paul Young

I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing…

— Denis Johnson

My father is an actor and I have always been surrounded by actors and actresses and to be quite honest I have…

— Alice Eve

Thrust into single motherhood, my mom worked multiple hourly jobs to support my sisters and me. She couldn't find full-time employment that…

— Wes Moore

The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown…

— Confucius

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background,…

— David Carson

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for…

— Sheldon Candis

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go…

— Adora Svitak

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it,…

— Jim Elliot

As a good Father, the Lord disciplines His children out of His love for them. My son, do not make light of…

— GODDEY WILSON

I still remember my father would bring lovely cakes for all of us from 'Flurys' in Calcutta. My mom used to love…

— Rituparna Sengupta

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism…

— Max Weber

[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her…

— Indira Gandhi

“Even in the midst of all this commotion she knows none of it really belongs to her, and marvels at the strange…

— Brady Udall

How kids feel about snow days is the exact opposite of how parents feel about snow days. . .

— Rick Sutter

A father may be different to his son but to his daughter he is security and high class hostage.

— Kishore Bansal

My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

— Stephen Leacock

Some parents find it difficult to understand that children are Growing Up and not Growing Down.

— Terry Mark

“Mothers show their daughters how to become strong, fathers make them”

— Rafia Shujaat

“They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!”

— Stephanie Perkins

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

— Bill Ayers

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

— Claudia Schiffer

I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I love being a husband and a father. That aspect of my life has been a joy.

— Jason Priestley

I always grew up around music, my parents and their love of music.

— Caleb McLaughlin

“In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

— Laura Linney

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

— Jon M. Chu

“Ignorance must be a fun place to live; my parents seem to vacation there year-round.”

— Nenia Campbell