Parenting Quotes · Page 160

I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.

— Peter Tosh

I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.

— Arbaaz Khan

“What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.”

— Margaret Atwood

Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores...it was awesome!

— Drew Brees

Father's Day used to be the only day you'd say I love you to your dad.

— Martin Kemp

My mother will start to worry. Beautiful. What you're hurry and father will be pacing the floor.

— Matt Belsante

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

— Olivia Wilde

My grandmother's mother was from near Naples, so I love Italy, but I feel completely Argentinian.

— Paulo Dybala

In Mexico, this idea that fathers go away is really deeply accepted because, for so long, so many men have had to…

— Diego Luna

For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we…

— Alek Wek

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to…

— Cynthia Nixon

I think Wimbledon is the highlight for most players, it's special. My father played there six times and never got past the…

— Casper Ruud

We all know that I failed as a parent. I'll be a way better grandparent than I was a parent, and that's…

— Scarface

“It’s not my fault.” For all those decades, she thought there was something wrong with her. She believed her father when he…

— Tracy Zager

“I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end,…

— George Saunders

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right.…

— Richard Pryor

I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I had a lot of disasters in the kitchen, even during the long period when I was cooking under my mother's supervision…

— Michael Chabon

“My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own my eyes, though…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the…

— Gregory Galloway

“Each of us is a child of parents, perhaps a sibling to someone, a friend to friends, a colleague to coworkers. Following…

— Mark Labberton

“It’s a lot to process,” she said. “ What Sebastian said, what happened last night, everything. I need to sleep, but I’…

— Cassandra Clare

My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me…

— Taika Waititi

I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my…

— Inge Lehmann

My first memories of my mother are of a delicate lady with a kind voice.

— John Carter Cash

Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!

— Jeff Garlin

You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.

— David Bowie

The only day in your life… Your mother smiled when you cried...

— Abdul Kalam

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

— Luis Bunuel

So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.

— Dave Matthews

We have a responsibility to Mother Earth to protect it as much as possible.

— Wes Studi

I am lucky I have him. After my parents passed away, Boneyji has been my father, mother, and husband.

— Sridevi

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

— Sylvia Plath

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

— Rajneesh

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

— Raquel Cepeda

I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'

— Mario Testino

I got the top spot again! Glad to make my parents proud.. Its for the first period good start though!!!

— Chinney

I didn't meet my father until he was 30, and he died nine months after that.

— Jermaine O'Neal

My father is an amazing fighter and what he's already accomplished is nothing short of remarkable.

— Eric Trump

It is not that I trust you because what your mother says but what your neighbour says.

— Vikrant Parsai