Parenting Quotes · Page 174

I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

— Nancy Pelosi

Many people don't realize that June Carter Cash was my godmother. She and mother were very tight.

— Hank Williams Jr

“Few sons, indeed, are like their fathers. Generally they are worse; but just a few are better.”

— Homer

When I raced, I had great parents, even a greater coach and a nutritionist. I was never insecure.

— Donovan Bailey

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

— Taika Waititi

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

— Katherine Dunn

Everything seems louder when you're trying not to wake your parents.

— Anonymous

Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

— Eminem

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much…

— Erin Morgenstern

Congrats to all the overworked and under-appreciated fathers and fathers to be. To all those lazy no good bastards that leave their…

— Nishan Panwar

Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.

— Eric Benet

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

— Oscar Wilde

“But thinking back now makes me scared for my former self the way any mother would be scared for her teenage daughter…

— Sophia Amoruso

“We mothers can testify that it is impossible to completely control a child. It’s like trying to steer a cat. Toni sorenson”

— Toni Sorenson

My mother was a seamstress, so I always grew up with her making clothes. I knew how to construct outfits. I knew…

— Edward Enninful

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my…

— Troy Vincent

As a young girl, I watched my mother hand-stitch thobes while sitting on the floor with a lamp at her side. She…

— Rashida Tlaib

Dear Heavenly Father, I have a friend who stands as close as a brother, a brave soul. I have seen in him…

— Bryan Davis

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“what good will it do to tell her her mother´s alive if her mother gets herself killed in the next hour?really?call me…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in…

— Nancy Chodorow

“(by mother Teresa)…"I was consoling a little girl who was sick and had much pain. I told her, 'You should be happy…

— Patricia T. Holland

My mother Vivian Ayers always instilled within her children that our opinions, our thoughts and our ideas about what was possible was…

— Debbie Allen

My father and mother separated when I was two months old.

— George Carlin

My grandma worked her whole life as a single mother.

— Phoebe Dynevor

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

— Kristy Swanson

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

— Jill Churchill

A mother is she who can take place of all other but whose place no one else can take…

— Mulfat

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

— William Wordsworth

All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

— Phyllis Diller

That Awkward moment when you're watching a movie with your parents and a sex scene comes on.

— Kollkid

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

— Luther Burbank

“In one way or another, you owe your life to Mother.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Am I a good mother? The best mother you could ever want?”

— Wendy Walker

“When the father helps the son, both smile. When the son helps the father, both cry. ~ Chinese proverb”

— Simon Brooke

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

— Sadie Jones

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.

— Anushka Sharma

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a…

— Honore de Balzac