Parenting Quotes · Page 170

“The best gifts a parent could give to their child are love, care, and safety.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

— David O. McKay

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

— Rita Rudner

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

— Diego Luna

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

— Sebastian Pinera

Today, Parents worry about what their sons download and what their daughters upload on the internet.

— Abhishek Tiwari

My mother caught my ex-wife and sister's husband red handed, in compromising situations many times.

— Raj Kundra

“father’s dark looks and she imagined that in his older”

— Lily Zante

I'm about to lock it so I'ma write this letter Was your day okay? Is your mother better? I'ma put this bid…

— Tony Yayo

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand…

— Martha Graham

I have seen and heard a 21-gun salute as my father is in the Navy, but that doesn't mean I don't jump…

— Neha Dhupia

The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never…

— Oswald Chambers

I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that…

— Omari Hardwick

I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take…

— A. R. Rahman

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“Heavenly Father, my heart goes out today to those whose feet are in the mud and mire of various slimy pits—friends whose…

— Scotty Smith

“Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you for rejecting me by never being there, fuck you for making me feel like shit about…

— Sarah Kane

I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense,…

— Jordan Gavaris

“[He] wanted her to be his. But despite her mother's confidence, Charlotte was still too hesitant for words to be rashly spoken.…

— Carolyn Miller

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had…

— Jose Mourinho

Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so…

— George H. W. Bush

[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they…

— Helen Van Slyke

“The skies can't keep their secret! They tell it to the hills — The hills just tell the orchards — And they…

— Emily Dickinson

“Having worked so hard to have children, parents may feel it's only natural to expect happiness from the experience. And they'll find…

— Jennifer Senior

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.

— Jay E. Adams

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

— Karl Kraus

A Mother is someone who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.

— Anonymous

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

— Eminem

I don't want to make any mistakes. My parents have been married for 40 years. I want to stay married.

— Ian Ziering

“Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

— Iyanla Vanzant

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

— Mahesh Bhatt

I am quite close to my mother. In fact, I speak to her every day.

— Angad Bedi

Becoming a father isn't difficult, but it's very difficult to be a father.

— Wilhelm Busch

“If your father says 'Bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor?”

— Scott Lynch

Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

— Anonymous

I ask my parents a simple 'yes' or 'no' question and I get a lecture.

— Anonymous

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

— Elayne Boosler

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

— Thomas Steinbeck