Parenting Quotes · Page 197

I am very proud of my mother - she is one of the greatest influences in my life.

— Lydia Hearst

The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.

— Steve Fowler

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

— Virginia Woolf

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

— Louise Hart

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

— Lucy DeVito

My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

— Julian Bream

I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career.

— David Lauren

I have two boys on the autism spectrum. I don't always know what's best for them. However, I know there is grace…

— Sho Baraka

We are respecting our parents' wishes…They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

— Anonymous

He happens to be my father and an incredible musician. When he gets lucky, we let him into the studio for 20…

— Synyster Gates

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way…

— Rory Kennedy

“I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashion at an…

— Reem Acra

I knew I'd been given another chance, another life in Australia by my parents, so I didn't want to hurt them.

— Saroo Brierley

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.

— Anonymous

My father was a great mentor to me and is someone I admire and look up to. However, it was my mum…

— Stuart Broad

The biggest challenge was the cost to play the sport, and this is a challenge that my parents faced. They relied on…

— P. K. Subban

My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were…

— Frank Gehry

My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of…

— Garry Marshall

“My parents told me that if I became a musician, perhaps I’ll lose the ability to make a livelihood. But, I became…

— Leda Deluhi

“Do you love your father more than anything else in all the whole world?” Ermengarde’s mouth fell open a little. She knew…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I ran toward the solitude of the dressing room. Of course, the full length mirror would have it's own disappointments, but I…

— Lisa Burstein

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and…

— Ani DiFranco

I wish I had parents like Dora. They let that bitch go everywhere.

— Patience

It's every immigrant child's dream to tell your parents they don't have to work anymore.

— Simu Liu

Action is the father of success or failure, happiness or misery.

— Dr TPChia

Took this pic 4 months ago..this is my new car my parents bought me

— Anonymous

My mother has been pressurising me to get married every single day.

— Nithiin

As long as you have the blessing of your parents it does not matter even if you live in the mountains.

— Greek Proverb

Saving is the best thing..especially when your parents have done it for you.

— Shubham Joshi

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

— Shannon Fife

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

— Amy Tan

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

— Warren Farrell

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

— Frances O'Connor

“He's not like his father. She reconsidered this. I mean, he's not perfect. But he's not Scarface.”

— Chelsea Cain

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

— J. K. Rowling

Father's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time.

— Anthony Jeselnik