Parenting Quotes · Page 199

Jon is the consistent parent. No means no. Whereas Elsie can play me like a fiddle.

— Lucy Beaumont

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

— Kat Dennings

Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.”

— Graham Greene

My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

— Gavin O'Connor

Just because my parents left Ramannagudem does not mean that I do not hail from Telangana.

— Vijayashanti

You know my father's favorite game? Come here and pull my finger.

— Bill Cosby

Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence.

— Alistair Begg

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I…

— Ricky Martin

“In introducing himself, he had said, "I'm the father," and the doctors had winced. Because something else must have echoed in their…

— Kenzaburo Oe

“My Parents were murdered in Texas in 2010 and he never got caught-My G-d Hates me and the police did not care. Truth”

— Brenda Kay Winters

“a mother’s breast gives warmth, food, protection against disease and a learning exercise in interactions.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Everyone within the sound of my voice has the power to increase a child’s confidence in himself or herself and to increase…

— Rosemary M. Wixom

“A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep…

— Sharan Newman

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

— Emily Giffin

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read…

— Anne Tyler

“Did your parents care that he was white?" "They never met him." I couldn't imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching…

— Nicola Yoon

My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater…

— Haven Kimmel

I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side…

— India.Arie

“It says Jesus puts His hearer in the role of the father, of the one who forgives. Because if we are, so…

— Marilynne Robinson

All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as…

— Dick Cavett

“...what science cannot explain is the psychic effect of this 'mother of all plants,' the sense of the numinous and the spiritual…

— Rak Razam

“He's such a good man," my mother said. "How I wish I loved him." "He's certainly crazy about you," I said, trying…

— Richard Russo

“After being approached at his mother’s funeral by a man who told him that Mary had “single-handedly saved America’s space program…and nobody…

— Sam Maggs

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

— Kid Rock

Deadbeat dads should be publicly flogged! All parents SHOULD live up to their obligations.

— Anonymous

My parents gave me life, but the doctors gave me life again.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

“God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.”

— Gloria Furman

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

— Chaim Potok

“I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.

— Jayson Tatum

I chose to stay close with my family and my parents and my brother.

— Jordan Rodgers

“Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.”

— Dan Pearce

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

— Henry Ford

Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

— Joaquin Miller

As a mother, I don't want any girl twerking near my kid at a bat mitzvah.

— Faith Salie

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

— Virginia Satir

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

— Anthony Bourdain

“When push comes to shove, a mother takes care of her children from the bottom up.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

If you haven't already told your kids 'don't fellate the president' then you're probably a bad parent.

— Scott Adams