Parenting Quotes · Page 155

“Do not trust and depend on someone as a godfather but accept God the father of all fathers.”

— Osunsakin Adewale

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

— Ron Reagan

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

You know you're a mother when the smallest wimper from your child can wake you from a dead sleep.

— Linda Poindexter

Acting with my parents was nerve-wracking. If they watch me act on the sets I feel nervous and blocked.

— Meghana Raj

I think all parents know this is a lot of responsibility... looking after children.

— Ayesha Takia

I just miss being around my mother. I'm her boy. I'm a momma's boy.

— O. J. Mayo

My parents bookshelves were full of books that belonged to their lives in the Communist party.

— Michael Rosen

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

— Alissa Quart

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families…

— David Suzuki

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that…

— Robert Breault

A mother cannot reasonably expect her grown-up children to boomerang back, gushing cosiness and make up for lost time. Absentee Mum, then…

— Carol Thatcher

I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find…

— Katy Perry

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a…

— Adrienne Rich

As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought…

— Paul Reiser

Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us…

— Eugene H. Peterson

When I was in high school, I was doing a fashion show, and my House Father would host fashion shows at the…

— Mj Rodriguez

“Do you remember your first time?” My best friend, AJ Dawson, checked under the door to make sure her mother’s feet weren’t…

— Tara West

Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a…

— Kajol

It is hard directing and being a mother. The hours are terrible and you have to sort of suspend your life when…

— Gurinder Chadha

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who…

— Benigno Aquino III

“Bones, Catelyn thought. This is not Ned, this is not the man I loved, the father of my children. His hands were…

— George R.R. Martin

“Your mother was the love of my life. Not everyone gets to have that. I did. Yes, I miss her, but I’m…

— Tracy Guzeman

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

— Anthony Horowitz

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

— Matt Czuchry

Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

— Nargis Fakhri

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

One of my father's better tendencies is to take in human beings who have somehow been led astray.

— Cord Jefferson

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

— Samuel Butler

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

— Shirley Jackson

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

— Margaret Turnbull

My parents are pretty strict 'education first - fun later' kind of parents.

— Stacey Solomon

Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.

— Evangeline Lilly

“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.”

— Margaret Dilloway

“A man without a mother is a man without a country, an exile”

— Jerry Weintraub

Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.

— Lloyd Alexander

“I am Tyrion, of House Lannister. Men call me the Imp.” “My mother named me Shae. Men call me … often.”

— George R.R. Martin

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

— James Nicoll