Parenting Quotes · Page 169

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“The Father is always intimately entwined in our struggles". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

If he doesn't respect his mother, he sure as hell won't respect YOU.

— Mina Alesevic

How many parents marriages lasted,I was only 5 I bet I barley reacted,

— Drake

“as his mother told Grandma Marie, there are no words for some”

— Chris Abani

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

— Jesus Christ

“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.”

— Nandi Berry

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

— Mark Twain

My mother is a lawyer by profession. Now she has shifted with me in Bombay. I lost my father a long back.

— Sourabh Raj Jain

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth…

— Ruby Bridges

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put…

— Coco Chanel

Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died,…

— Jasper Fforde

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by…

— Pope Leo I

I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks…

— Jim Morrison

To my parents, Morris and Helen, I give thanks for the gift of life, the vehicle for the expression of my work,…

— Peter A. Levine

“given that she barely saw her father, given that she continued to measure out her contact with him, whether to deny herself…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. At the time I was growing up with my father - before it was gentrified…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

“One victim, Harrison F. Finley, was a World War II veteran and the father of two young children. He was shot to…

— James Forman Jr

Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have…

— Viola Davis

Part 1 Mothers are the gift of life, they give life, they raise life and they protect it with everything they have.…

— Rebecca Ried

“The Father loves his Son, and so hates sin, which ultimately is rejection of the Son; he loves his children, and so…

— Michael Reeves

“When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common…

— Gayle D. Erwin

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he…

— Robert Powell

“I wish that friend were you, Beast. Please come with me. We’ll take the flower to my father together. We’ll make him…

— Vivienne Savage

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

— Red Auerbach

“the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  According to His great mercy, ”

— Ted Cabal

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

— Jack Nicholson

Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.

— Colin Falconer

Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough

— Wilhelm Busch

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

— Hisham Matar

I understand the repercussions of following in my father's footsteps.

— Shruti Haasan

As parents we all have that underlying guilt about how much time we give to our careers.

— Chris Harris

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.

— Danny Masterson

“Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She’d learned that one at her mother’s knee.”

— J.D. Robb

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

— Bruce Willis

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

— Alison Bechdel

I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

— Heather Morris

Why, that you're not my brother,only one / I'm not a mother's son, / who gave birth to you

— Mak_786

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

— Polixeni Papapetrou

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

— Erich Fromm