Parenting Quotes · Page 176

“Abdul rose with minimal whining, since the only whining his mother tolerated was her own.”

— Katherine Boo

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

— Jim Rohn

I know parents have a hard time letting their kids spread their wings and fly.

— Rosanna Arquette

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

— Terry J. Lundgren

“[...] colonization was a paedophile [sic] who insists on being a parent.”

— Tapiwa Mugabe

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

— Phil McGraw

My parents have always advocated doing what I love to do.

— Candice Patton

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

— John Noble

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical,…

— Virginia Woolf

“The nights now only slightly less black. By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“If there’s anything I learned from my mother, it’s that power makes you just as vulnerable as it makes you strong. People…

— Anna Jarzab

“My mother can’t have been magic, or she wouldn’t have died,’ said Riddle, more to himself than Dumbledore.”

— J.K. Rowling

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and…

— John Green

. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and…

— Susan Piver

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

— Morton Hunt

“A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands…

— Rick Riordan

I talk about the food issue, I'm really coming at it from pre-White House times, when I was a working mother with…

— Michelle Obama

What my parents have given to me is not anything that has to do with money or success or anything that society…

— Willow Smith

I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron…

— Ilona Andrews

“I stand to leave, but my father says, “Wait!” over the red telephone. “Let me just look at you a minute.” He…

— Carolee Dean

When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been…

— Ziauddin Yousafzai

“The third time out he concluded that we were hunting cows. That was a day that will live long in memory. Mutt…

— Farley Mowat

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket…

— Ted Cruz

Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I…

— Ian Rankin

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

— Ben Folds

My parents raised me that way: to appreciate what I have and pass it along to others.

— Katrina Adams

A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be

— Anonymous

“What great deed can parent do, than to pray for their children.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

— D. H. Lawrence

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

— Joseph Conrad

A Lot of Parents will do anything for their Kids... Except let them be themselves...

— Banksy

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

— David Rockefeller

It takes more than just giving birth, to be a mother.

— Anonymous

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

— Samuel Johnson

Dudes think that money has everything to do with being a good father. It goes beyond that my boy.

— Anonymous

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

— Jim Fowler

One of the best things parents can do for their children is to be approachable at all times.

— Terry Mark

I loved 1990s television: 'The Fast Show,' 'Father Ted,' 'Harry Enfield.' 'Clive Anderson Talks Back.'

— Josh Widdicombe

I knew that love was around. I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't.

— Tyler Perry

Especially for Haitian immigrant parents, being a musician is not a job.

— Kaytranada