Parenting Quotes · Page 177

I have always loved my father, but there was a phase when I would think he was criticising me too much.

— Aditya Narayan

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.

— John Kennedy Toole

“It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.”

— Calvin Coolidge

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

— Jeff Buckley

My life would've been so different if my parents listened to Korn. That would've been fire!

— Ari Lennox

Sometimes, I look at my parents now and wonder what happened to make them the way they are

— Anonymous

There is no other love more true, pure, and real than the love that a child feels for their mother.

— AnnMarie Rojas

You never realize how offensive your music is until your parents are sitting in the passenger seat.

— Anonymous

I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there…

— Ingrid Michaelson

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how…

— Siobhan Fahey

Everyone has gone trick or treating, everyone carves a jack o lantern with their parents. If you really look at the stories…

— Michael Dougherty

I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew…

— Angela Duckworth

“At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues.”

— Jonathan Tropper

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual…

— Billy Graham

“Father, you are sending mixed signals. You dispatched a woman to murder me today and now you’re upset about my wedding reception?”

— Ilona Andrews

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I…

— Tea Leoni

“After Dad died, I told myself I wouldn’t be one of those bratty kids who made it difficult for their single parent…

— Anna Banks

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give…

— Anonymous

“Loser" "Father directed choir. When it paused on a Sunday, he liked to loiter out morning with the girls; then back to…

— Robert Lowell

“When Lee has a certain look on his face, eyes kind of amused, mouth small and tight, he finds himself thinking of…

— Don DeLillo

“The thank-you thing had been drummed into us intensely when we were growing up. We had three great-aunts, on my mother’s side,…

— Will Schwalbe

She was a wonderful mother. She was my best friend. Same for my brother. And it's funny because we didn't grow up…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

“Nesta threw another series of punches, and Cassian knew she was leading up to the knockout blow. Two left jabs and a…

— Sarah J. Maas

My parents loved me, and I think they realized that I was probably not going to have a normal 9-to-5 job. For…

— Jason Wu

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

— Sigmund Freud

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

— Eli Roth

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

— Keith Emerson

I have a joyful life, and I attribute that to both of my parents.

— Jeannette Walls

My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

— Gaby Hoffmann

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

— Benjamin Spock

Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.

— Raj Kapoor

Those of you without a Father...choose a man you can trust to speak into your life like one.

— Anonymous

“Waterfalls are a magnificent creation of mother nature.”

— Shree Shambav

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

— Rita Rudner

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

— Jodi Picoult

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

— John Lithgow

Clary's mother apparently reguarded him as about as sexually threatening as a goldfish.

— Cassandra Clare

I am a very easy-going father at home - I am more of a friend than a parent.

— Randhir Kapoor

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

— Patrick Stewart

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

— Isabelle Huppert