Parenting Quotes · Page 189

I was typecast in a mother's role very early in life. I didn't even reach a certain age. I was 20.

— Shefali Shah

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

— Antonio Villaraigosa

Both my parents are wonderful cooks - my father looks like he has been in the kitchen his whole life.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.

— Thom Yorke

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.

— Daniel D. Palmer

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

— Meredith Brooks

Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.

— Robin Lakoff

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

— Whitney Houston

“God our Father loves to give good gifts to us, his children. He invites us to ask for that which we need.…

— Gareth J. Goossen

All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every…

— Sandra Scarr

“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,…

— John 1 14

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using…

— Beyonce Knowles

“...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and…

— Anne Fadiman

I know parents across America remain sick with worry about the safety of their children. I feel that anguish.

— Lucy McBath

I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's…

— Cobie Smulders

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door…

— Mel Brooks

“I have no reasons to be unhappy today. Normally, when I pick my mother up from the police station I go to…

— Skyla Madi

“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He…

— Susan Rowland

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So,…

— Ben Elliot

In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties...…

— Whit Stillman

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in…

— Jackson Rathbone

“Galadir drew his sword, pointing it at the throat of the mother. «Be quiet! Never! It's just one, the Goddess whom I…

— Chiara Cilli

“My mother always told me not to pick my nose, so I’m going let the plastic surgeon decide what my new nose…

— Jarod Kintz

“A doctor should be a clown at heart, a scientist at brain and a mother at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The zenith is just a little farther away from the nadir”

— Uzoma Ezeson

My parents are Andre Previn and Mia, but obviously, they're not even my real parents.

— Soon-Yi Previn

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

— Diane Cilento

“If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.”

— D.R. Silva

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

— Dominique Wilkins

Fathers, for the first time, we have no clue what we're doing. I had no idea when I became a father.

— Ed McCaffrey

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

— Camryn Manheim

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents

— Rod Blagojevich

“Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.”

— Toba Beta

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

— David Soul

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

— Gore Verbinski

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

— Kitty Carlisle

I was raised by vegan parents, and we ate out of my backyard garden for my whole life.

— Madelaine Petsch

My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

— Patrick Schwarzenegger

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh