Parenting Quotes · Page 211

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

— Annette Funicello

“What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]”

— Susan Hubbard

Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.

— Quentin L. Cook

When I started, my mother was already an actress and I wasn't keen on being one.

— Supriya Pathak

“Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being.”

— Kittie Frantz

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

— Byron Katie

The pride of a father can not be measured in a words.

— Juniorjk

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

— Sara Shandler

“My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a…

— William Ames

“Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like…

— Jack Kerouac

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody…

— America Ferrera

I have always let my heart rule my head, but if I could rewind and start afresh I would listen to my…

— Zeenat Aman

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The God has taken away the right of motherhood, The saying to sterile could not hail his heart wants to become a…

— Mak_786

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can…

— Robert Charles Wilson

My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30…

— Dikembe Mutombo

My father spent all those years building his brand. I happen to be his namesake, and I also happen to be the…

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

“My father hated public restrooms. Once, when I was a little boy, I had noticed he did not wash his hands after…

— J.D. Daniels

“In all that Jesus came to say and do, including and especially in His atoning suffering and sacrifice, He was showing us…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest…

— Michel Odent

My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, “You know, I brought you…

— Bill Cosby

“If a man’s heart is rankling with discord and ill feeling toward you, you can’t win him to your way of thinking…

— Dale Carnegie

My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm…

— Jane Russell

I was 11 when my father died, so I didn't know my father so well.

— Louis van Gaal

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”

— Emilie Buchwald

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

— Alan Rickman

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

— Ursula Burns

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

— Jayne Meadows

I maybe convinced my parents to let me cut school once, but definitely, in college, I cut school a lot.

— Ethan Peck

If I didn't have to prove my parents I can be something...I'd probably be traveling the world.

— Anonymous

“The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!”

— M.L. Stedman

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

— Anonymous

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.

— Tim Conway

“He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Mother Nature offers her nurturing essence to us all freely with no expectation of reciprocation.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

— Malala Yousafzai

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

— St. Lucia

In the ‘looks of disappointment’ department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.

— Tom Papa