Parenting Quotes · Page 195

When you inject capital into the parent, it may or may not benefit the subsidiary.

— Charles Dallara

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

— Tamara Ecclestone

My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

— Koren Zailckas

Both of my parents are from Upstate New York, so my dad was a Yankees fan and I grew up a Yankees…

— Corey Seager

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

— Wassily Kandinsky

“She called it baggage. "You're scared to open your suitcases and see what your mother packed.”

— A.S. King

“Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else could you produce…

— J.K. Rowling

My daughter is in more competition with me. I never wanted to be bigger than my mother or to challenge her.

— Nina Simone

I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress, because I was doing impressions of…

— Michelle Dockery

“But many, perhaps most siblings share a private universe tropical with benevolence, betrayal, vendetta, reconciliation, and the use and abuse of power…

— Lauren Oliver

I come from a RSS family. My father was a strong supporter of the RSS, and he was a swayamsewak of the…

— Sushma Swaraj

My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.

— Jaboukie Young-White

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

— Caroline B. Cooney

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns…

— Jason Kilar

Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted…

— Ishmael Reed

“A friend's mother ate nothing but clams for six months. Morning, noon, and night, nothing but clams. 'I don't know what it…

— Abigail Thomas

“I've never been afraid of ghosts. I live with them daily, after all. When I look in a mirror, my mother's eyes…

— Diana Gabaldon

“There is an innate drive to achieve and turn out to be exceptional. However, for the child of a famous parent, the…

— Sumedha Mahajan

“when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents,…

— Andrew Murray

I don't think that anyone could try to be my father, I think he was extremely unique, and if anybody were to…

— Shannon Lee

His name was Fred Rogers. He came home to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, once upon a time, and his parents, because they were wealthy,…

— Tom Junod

In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to…

— Max Horkheimer

My parents divorced when I was 12, and leading up to that it was... not without turbulence.

— Adrianne Lenker

My father always shied away from attention. Whenever he'd get a compliment, he'd downplay it.

— Robert Parish

“A girl doesn't need a hero in her life, she needs a father, doesn't she?”

— Zøe Haslie

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

— Sophie Kinsella

I liked helping my parents, feeling useful, feeling smart.

— Geisha Williams

Who needs a mother when you have amazing older sisters...?*

— Liani Louw

“Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks—to be noticed.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.

— Vance McAllister

Balance does not come naturally to any working mother, I can assure you that.

— Mandira Bedi

I have fielded mothers, whose empowerment can bring the real double engine growth.

— Naveen Patnaik

Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Someday you'll be a grown-up ... and then your mother will have no one to talk to.”

— Don DeLillo

Parents are the very last people who ought to be allowed to have children.

— Anonymous

I am a son, husband and father of two children. I have to take care of their needs and concerns.

— Salim Kumar

The main problem with teenagers is that they're just like their parents were at their age.

— Anonymous

“Love you parents. Every single moment.Every single day.”

— augelicht