Parenting Quotes · Page 201

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

— Christina Aguilera

“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.

— Anonymous

My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.

— Sam Riley

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

— R. C. Sproul

I only really ever hug my mother. Is this okay?” he asked. I laughed. “It’s hard to get a hug wrong.

— Kiera Cass

My mother was - and is - a very strong woman; very strict. She was a serious mum; a feared parent.

— Ashley Walters

“Victory on earth lies in the hand of our Father, who art in Heaven.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

— Mahesh Bhupathi

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being…

— Louise Mensch

'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work…

— David Garrow

“Bran asked his father , Can a man be brave if he is afraid? Thst is the only time a man can…

— George .R.R. Martini

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and…

— Esther Duflo

A person takes his own path. My father tried to guide me the best way he thought I should go, and it…

— Naseeruddin Shah

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing…

— Rick Baker

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

— Fred D'Aguiar

My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing…

— Patty Jenkins

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a…

— Vidal Sassoon

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,…

— H. G. Wells

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before…

— Mike Huckabee

“In thousands of little ways, we pull and push our children to grow up, hurrying them along instead of inviting them to…

— Gordon Neufeld

I always wanted to be an actor and my parents were happy with my decision. But that happened later. They were apprehensive…

— Jasmin Bhasin

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and…

— Kamala Harris

Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking…

— Richard Neal

My parents always told me to be respectful to anyone you meet and to live your life that way.

— Marcus Mariota

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

— Monica Vitti

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,

— Greg Iles

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.

— William Shakespeare

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

— James Russell Lowell

My mother and father have always drilled in to me that work is very important.

— Spencer Matthews

My Parents Should Be Proud Of Me, I'm Not Addicted To Drugs Or Cigarettes, But You!

— Anonymous

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

— Franz Grillparzer

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

— Henry Louis Gates

The truth is you may be far happier as a bachelor, but you are far more at peace as a father.

— Sajid Khan

“My father gave me early indications that he would live forever. One”

— Daniel Wallace

All the women close to me - my mother, sister, wife and friends - are strong and independent.

— Gautham Menon

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

— Hugh Hefner

My mother never liked that I worked undercover. She always worried.

— Ron Stallworth

My father had to shift from the village because he didn't have a steady job.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

My mother used to stop me from going to DJ battles. I'd, like, cry, get really upset.

— Statik Selektah