Parenting Quotes · Page 185

“As for Chicks with Daddy Issues: Do I really want to be with a Woman who wants to be my Father?”

— Josh Stern

My parents have left a legacy in our family of service to others.

— Neil Bush

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

— Bruce Brown

It is saddening to see parents busy making money and their children losing out on a good life.

— Ravi Kishan

“Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?”

— Richard Bachman

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

— Plato

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

— Don Willett

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

— Thomas Watson

Yeah, I went to business school and I actually worked as an accountant for about eight months. It's not what I wanted,…

— Simu Liu

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

— Ziauddin Yousafzai

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character.…

— Lynn Johnston

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just…

— Soleil Moon Frye

As a mom to biological children and adopted gay children all around the world, nothing gives my heart strings a tug as…

— Michelle Visage

“Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this…

— Jeff Wheeler

“Shut up, Arthur,' said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child. Ginger started to laugh. Not at…

— Sarah Winman

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to…

— Gayle King

All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I…

— Anne Lamott

“Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart's content.…

— Helene Wecker

My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

“What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her…

— David Nicholls

It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had…

— Maggie Stiefvater

It wasn't rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values…

— Patricia Routledge

“As Louis Cozolino Ph. D., observes, a consistent theme of adult psychotherapy clients is that they had parents who were not curious…

— Peg Streep

“For if you keep my commandments you shall receive of his fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in the…

— Henry B. Eyring

We need to care for all children as if they were hijos propios; children of our own flesh and blood.

— Patrick Atkinson

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

— Fiona Bruce

“Trust in tough love. You're given the poison but also the antidote.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

— Frederick Douglass

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

— Ben Elton

Trying to balance a career at the high end of the industry with being a mother is always tough.

— Monica Galetti

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

— Jaron Lanier

“Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.”

— Dallas Willard

My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.

— Tim Kimmel

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

— Billy Joel

My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him.

— Laura Schlessinger

“Parents do not have the right to hurt their children.”

— Ingrid Holm-Garibay

Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.

— Lisa Ling

You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.

— Kevin DeYoung

When I get off the phone with my parents, usually I'm in a good spot.

— Marcus Mariota

A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

— Maureen Johnson