Parenting Quotes · Page 165

The older I become, the more I think about my mother.

— Ingmar Bergman

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

— Nolan Bushnell

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

— Anonymous

You'll only know what your parents went through if you're one!

— MJ

I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.

— Anne Hathaway

I was bitter about my parents until I realized how bitter they were about their parents.

— Anonymous

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

— Margaret Carlson

“Trouble comes to those who bring it upon themselves, her mother used to say,”

— Martha Conway

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say…

— Rupert Penry-Jones

It took me a while to accept everything, but I am so grateful for the way my parents raised me. It's my…

— Karen Bardsley

Hope your wildest hopes, dream your maddest dreams, imagine your most fantastic fantasies. Where your hopes and your dreams and your imagination…

— Brennan Manning

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in…

— John Flavel

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without…

— Liz Murray

I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic

My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the…

— Irina Shayk

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do. Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me.

— Ashley Tisdale

Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'…

— J. K. Rowling

“. . . Don't live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as…

— Nahid Rachlin

For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our founding fathers. They set forth principles…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I joined my father for recordings when I was 11 or so. By then, I could play a dozen instruments. My first…

— Vidyasagar

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was…

— Sandra Oh

“The key to activating maturation is to take care of the attachment needs of the child. To foster independance we must first…

— Gordon Neufeld

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up…

— John Walsh

The best predictor of a woman's involvement in terrorism, whether it's a secular or religious group, is a relationship with a terrorist:…

— Mia Bloom

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

— George Bernard Shaw

I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

— Nicole Richie

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

— Mary Docter

“Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.”

— John Green

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

— Anna Lee

No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.

— Stephen Curry

“She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter.”

— Erica Bauermeister

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

— Janice Dickinson

“Why is it that parents always want to know every detail about your boring day at school?”

— Heather Vogel Frederick

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

— Yasmine Hamdan

“She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest.”

— Dennis Lehane

Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.

— Timothy Olyphant

“My mother is my pastor She teaches me the Bible I love her as my mentor She tells me to be humble!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

— Samantha Power

Everything about mothers hurts me ' song's stories ' quotes ' movies ' images =(( R.I. Mom

— Abdulrahman ElTohami