Parenting Quotes · Page 172

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

— Jeffrey Hunter

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

— George Eliot

Don't let your parents telling you that you shouldn't do something stop you from doing it.

— KT Tunstall

“My body is broken. I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child

— Atisa

“I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother.”

— Debbie Macomber

“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")”

— A.E. Coppard

“What kind of parents willingly name their kid Spud? They should be arrested for douchebaggery.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam…

— M. S. Swaminathan

But the older I get, the more I like my father and understand him. I was the first-born and he was very…

— Adrian Dunbar

Love your parents and treat them with love and care. For you will only know their value when you see their empty…

— Anonymous

I don't have memories of that time, but my parents were obviously around during the Troubles, and lots of members of my…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did…

— Robert Barry

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are…

— Bertrand Russell

My parents were critical to building up my well of strength and resolve that I turn to whenever I'm in a difficult…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

Some girls think that your ugly, some boys think your pathetique, some parents think your a rebel, some teachers think that your…

— Levita Charin

It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the…

— Swami Vivekananda

During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just…

— Alexa Hampton

Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“It was only out on the cold street...that Riley began to feel the full loss of his father. Poppa, he thought, Oh…

— Lori Lansens

My father was just and good to both white and colored, and as they dwelt and workedtogether I never heard or saw…

— Kate Virginia Cox Logan

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke,…

— Joanna Going

“On the flight to Phillidelphia, she sat alone in the middle of a row of three seats. She could not help but…

— Alice Sebold

Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither.

— Maureen Lipman

I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.

— Leila Slimani

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone ever did, he believed in me while the others didn't.

— Anonymous

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

— Jose Rizal

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

— Alexander Pope

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

— Pauline Oliveros

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

— Malachy McCourt

My father trusts me and my judgement. I will not let him down.

— Athiya Shetty

My parents came to know about our love... I think we should not play together for few days...

— Anonymous

My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house?

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

My parents taught us respect for other people, and for other people's things.

— Martin Kemp

Family is the first school for young children, and parents are powerful models.

— Alice Sterling Honig

Do you love your mother? I do love her. without my mom I wouldn't be here right now.

— Regina Malabago

Happy Mother's Day to the greatest mom in the world besides Michelle Obama.

— Anonymous

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

— Charles Kettering