Parenting Quotes · Page 178

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

— Erin Kelly

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

— Richard P. Feynman

I took up 'Waqt' and 'Gandhi My Father' because they were very too special to be missed.

— Shefali Shah

The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.

— Jerry Van Dyke

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

— James Bobin

“You can't put a limit on aything. The more you dream, the father you get.”

— Michael Phelps

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

— Joan Rivers

I already feel as if being lied to is a giant fuck you...but my mother???

— Anonymous

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness,…

— Guy Claxton

[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They…

— Patti Smith

I think it's really important to give valid information to parents about the benefits of encouraging their children to eat breakfast.

— Jo Frost

“Just like your father, Ryan—blunt, abrasive and cursing like a sailor.” He moved closer until he was just inches from him and…

— Franca Storm

Even though my parents raised me in a very individualistic way, they were also strict and traditional, which was good. It was…

— Anoushka Shankar

We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented…

— Brigham Young

I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.'…

— Ricky Martin

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly…

— Corrie Ten Boom

“Wonder whether Mussolini's mother spanked him too much or too little--you never know, these psychological days. Can distinctly remember spanking Peter, but…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“The two bond over their mutual lack of family ties: Saul from his disownment, Miriam from the car accident that orphaned her…

— Myla Goldberg

While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is…

— John Clare

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally…

— Mike Mills

While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need…

— Andy Murray

Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from…

— Nina Turner

“I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are…

— Tina Fey

I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

— Naomi Campbell

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I’m sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

— Patrick deWitt

There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

Shout-out my parolees and I smoke that OG. Kush mother fuck the police, all my niggas rock gold teeth.

— Asap Rocky

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

— Evelyn Keyes

I've always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B'nai B'rith at our house.

— Adam Sandler

When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy.

— Dennis Miller

I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there.

— Richard Pryor

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

— Elisabeth Elliot

May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

— Edward Ramsay

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

— Swami Vivekananda

As a parent I fail because my son does not take me seriously.

— Rahul Dev

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

— Wes Bentley