Parenting Quotes · Page 198

God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

— Thomas S. Monson

My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

— Laura Dern

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.

— Kin Hubbard

You might be a redneck if during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

— Jeff Foxworthy

My life is with Shah Rukh and the kids. He is the best husband and father I could ever ask for.

— Gauri Khan

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world with the parents I had. Period.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

I grew up Mormon, but after my parents divorced, we stopped going to church.

— Rubi Rose

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

— Margaret Spellings

“When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.”

— Marco Roth

I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child.

— Mirai Nagasu

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he…

— Leonard Susskind

“Karl was seventeen when Joseph dwindled away, and somebody told him that was Hamlet’s age when his father died too.”

— Gregory Benford

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

— Karisma Kapoor

Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I…

— William Shakespeare

“Even the Thanksgiving when her parents had just divorced, Hoosier Pie made the cut. ...They also, incidentally, made a pumpkin pie, but…

— Molly Wizenberg

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor,…

— Ewan McGregor

“An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in order to make their parents happy/ provide their…

— Lukasz Laniecki

The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother…

— Terri E Apter

When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I…

— Tess Gallagher

There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly…

— Robert D. Hales

“In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Those were the terms in which my parents, keen for me to grow up well grounded in cynicism, explained things to me.…

— David Mitchell

“Dave put his head down and ate his eggs. He heard his mother leave the kitchen, humming Old MacDonald all the way…

— Dennis Lehane

Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from…

— Sandra Scarr

My father passed away due to Alzheimer's disease, and many things I do are nods to him.

— Jim Nantz

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

— David Beckham

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

— Michael Douglas

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

— Katharine Hepburn

My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.

— Graham Phillips

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

— Lydia Sigourney

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

— Anthony Edwards

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

— David LaChapelle

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

— Kathleen Turner

My sister and I mistakenly watched 'American Pie' whilst still living at home with our parents.

— Stacey Solomon

“father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news,”

— Nicholas Sparks

My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.

— Benjamin Cohen

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

— Nancy Friday

Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin

“Because we have the identity of the Son, we have the favor of the Father.”

— Bryan Chapell